A Story Worth Telling..

For readers of the last updated posting I made , you may have noticed a young man in school uniform in the front row. Literally standing " head and shoulders" above the rest of the orphans.

Normally I spread my posts over a longer period of time , but I recieved a lovely e mail from our dear friend Tammy from the United States of America, saying how much she loved reading my blogs ...so Tammy this is dedicated for you , knowing your kind heart and love of our orphans.

I asked COGAN to send me a background to this child ...and I must say it brought me to tears as well as thanking God for how " circumstances " brought this little baby boy into Cogans life.

Here is Cogans account...largely untouched by me with only a small number of grammatical changes so you will better under stand.

The photo below of George...in his second hand clothes that he proudly wears especially for this photo.

Enjoy😊

Lindsay

Biography of Kasigura George

His Real date of birth is not known but other street kids and chairman local council one Mujasi told me information about George..

He joined the Kabale  Central market Street in 2013 after the death of his parents and that he was around 3 years old.

I visited mujasi chairman local one where his parents lived and this is what he told me.

His father was called Tumuheki kikomo of Rwandese origin who came in Uganda in 1994 during Genocide in Rwanda.

Fearing for his life he escaped to Uganda Kabale  district as it nears Rwanda and starts working as casual labourer at Kabale  Central Market as casual labourer.

But as he grown he started smoking marijuana which led him into imprisonment in the year 2005.

And he was convicted for 5 years.he came out of prison in 2010 and  started working again as casual labourer at Kabale  Central market.

Before he was convicted he had already contracted AIDS .

In 2010 he met Kyomugisha Agnes in Kabale  Town who was senior prostitute in kabale town and in  2011 month which chairman couldn't remember they gave birth of George.

The nurses refused the mother to breastfeed George fearing that George would contract the disease from mother through breast feeding and  he was put on  bottle feeding 

In the year 2012 the father refused to take ARVZ  (AIDS)  medication and died and also the mother died at the end of 2012, and  they left George at early age in the Ghettos of kabale town.

It's in these Ghettos where other street kids who were older that George took him to the Kabale Street to look for left over foods which people threw in dustbins .

George together with other street kid's slept in culverts  near Kabale  Central market.

In the year 2017 my grand mother got sick and I took her to Kabale Referral  Hospital  it's where I met little George who was put on oxygen.

The rain running water entered into culverts  where the streets kid's used to sleep and because George was very young rain running water found him in culverts  early morning other street kids found him half dead and took him at Kabale  hospital by the  mercy of God he survived  and got healed and he was in sick bed besides my grand mother and that was where I met Little George and Nurses asked me if I will take him and I accepted took him to look after him..

Since then he has grown old and now in primary seven being cared for very   well by orphanage of hope.He is a very well behaved boy hard working and very wise in class and he was Baptised by pastor Nicholas in 2019.

I thank Lindsay and Dalaine Walker and other donors who have took responsibility of helping all these orphans May God bless you abundantly.

Yours Tumwesigye Cogan Carer of the Orphans @ The Orphanage of Hope .