U-TOUCH Uganda Education Project

U-TOUCH has been successfullly sponsoring the education of specifically chosen orphans resulting from the Lord's Resistence War since 2006. Twenty-five students have successfully completed their education or on their way to completion. They have become teachers, statisticains, attorneys, administrators, grant writers, technologists, graphic artists and others are studying to become nurses, engineers and physicans already making an impact or eagerly preparing to make a change in their communities and country.   

My name is Sebastian and I was born during the insurgency in northern Uganda. During this period the activity was at its peak.  As a result I lost my father when I was just a three-month old baby. I cannot remember my father up to now, because, all the photos in our house were burned by the rebels. I was remaining with my mother, only when I reached four years old my mother was also captured and was given the same punishment as my father. After that occasion life was very hard since, the elder in my family was my sister. She was the head of the family since all our other relatives were killed. Luckily we had an aunt who was living in an urban center and came to take us with her. From there we were given an education though when I reached Primary Six in 2009, life became hard again. My aunt ran a shortage of money to continue supporting our education. In the second term, U-TOUCH thankfully came into support us in school.I am very happy to be in school, which is only possible because of U-TOUCH. I deeply appreciate your support, not only paying our school fees but also offering scholastic materials toward our educations. You work so tirelessly to make sure that we have a bright future for a better tomorrow. I appreciate and U-TOUCH for their great work to help raise funds for my school fees. Thank you,Oroma Sebastian

 We met Sebastian in 2009, when he was 11 years old living with his Grandma Francesca and seven cousins. We enrolled Sebastian at Negri Secondary School where he had been identified as a “bright and excellent” student. We saw the same. Sebastian built a reading hut, where he and Julius sat, practicing to become proficient readers and scholars. At 11 years old, and never having seen a computer or television, Sebastian built a working radio from a collection of junk parts  – a Jerry Can (like a gas can) a small white plastic basket, antenna, circuit board, batteries, speakers and wire!  Sebastian connected all the parts and we danced to the music from Sebastian’s ingenious radio creation. Sebastian is also an excellent athlete who loves to play soccer. He is funny, sensitive, and quick to smile. His teachers LOVE Sebastian and believe he has a terrific future since MMS and LJHS has kept him in school. Taking his education very seriously, Sebastian ranked top, #1 student four consecutive years in Secondary School and scored the highest, the top student in his district on a national exam. As a result he was invited to attend the best high school in Uganda, for his final two years in high school.  When asked about his future, Sebastian said he wants to be, not surprisingly, an engineer but also a physician to help his country’s extreme medical needs. Naturally, he is now excited about becoming a bio-medical engineer. Sebastian has a bright future if we keep him in school. “I am very happy to be at school and ‘am smelling’ the sense of achieving my dream of being a medical engineer just because of you, since you are always in touch” U-TOUCH is sponsoring Sebastian to complete his high school education will realize his dreams to attend a fine university and become a bio-medical engineer. It is because of you, Sebastian on his way to creating solutions to Uganda’s manychallenges.  

Brilliance is equally distributed, opportunity is not. U-TOUCH brings Opportunity!