By Karen Sparacio | Project Leader
Every child deserves to receive an education, to play and to dream. With your help, we are making that a reality for children in Uganda's Acholi Quarter. Children whose lives and futures are still affected by the war in Northern Uganda. Children who grew up fighting as child soldiers. Children who grew up in a slum. Forgotten. Haunted. Hungry.
Penina is one of those children. She lives with her aunt, Irene, in the Acholi Quarter. Her parents live in a refugee camp and feared she would be abducted by rebels, so they sent her away. Her aunt is hard-working, but never attended school. She works tirelessly in the stone quarry to support both her immediate and extended family. She dreams that Penina will have the opportunity to receive the education that she and her siblings did not.
With your support, we've been able to make that possible. Penina is now attending secondary school. She performs Ugandan cultural dances with her school's dancing club and feels free and happy when she dances.
We strive to continue to make it possible for all children in the Quarter to have the chance to dream and find the happiness from within.
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