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A school for my village, a promise to the orphans of Nyaka, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri with Susan Urbanek Linville

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A school for my village, a promise to the orphans of Nyaka, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri with Susan Urbanek Linville

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A school for my village

Responsibility statement

Twesigye Jackson Kaguri with Susan Urbanek Linville

Sub title

a promise to the orphans of Nyaka

Summary

A founder of the Nyaka and Kutamba AIDS Orphans Schools describes how he returned to his native Uganda after college and was compelled by the dire circumstances of his village's AIDS orphans to make tuition-free education available

Table Of Contents

The line at our door -- The devil's hand -- The chicken is full of bones -- My brother's keeper -- Through the valley of the shadow -- The prospect of marriage -- The great escape -- Only one acre -- Plans -- The price of stones -- An article of faith -- Constructive solutions -- Being the man -- It is not enough to be sorry -- Two girls -- There are no streetlights -- My meeting with Mondo -- A song of hope and despair -- One never knows -- Cows in America -- If you do not reach, you cannot grasp -- Nothing worthwhile is easy -- Scovia -- Who is my neighbor? -- Big trucks and soda pop -- Ideas and ideals -- In that rich darkness -- More than a composition -- The brigadier -- One more grave -- A gathering of grannies -- Graduation day -- Afterword -- Afterword to the paperback edition: The best is yet to come -- Help make a difference

Target audience

adult

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Promise to the orphans of Nyaka

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