Faith's Story

Faith's community in eastern Uganda is one of those places where dignity, purpose and identity disappear. Kitany drew in families with nowhere else to go, hauling their belongings on their backs or balanced on their heads. Some fled violence from brutal cattle rustlers; others were forcibly removed from their subsistence farms, when the government created a national park.

Faith is the youngest of twelve children in a family that resides in two grass huts, with one cow to provide milk. Her elderly parents simply don’t have any income to help her with school costs. Faith’s education was in danger of ending in elementary school at the small mud-stick, dirt-floored schoolhouse in Kitany. Secondary school just wasn’t possible.

When Food for the Hungry provided her with a scholarship, the required school uniform, books, and school supplies, Faith’s future shone brighter. But it was more than the money that helped Faith. Because of the encouragement Faith received from FH staff and from her sponsor, Faith pressed forward in her studies. The relationship with FH staff also deepened her relationship with God and led her to become very involved in her church.

She now lists chemistry, math and agriculture as favorite subjects and dreams of attending university to study nursing, a profession she can use to help her own community some day.

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