We asked students in Trust High School and staff in Kabubbu to write a personal Christmas story with 50 words for Facebook. We offered a prize equivalent to a day’s wage. They had two titles to choose from. Either ‘The most unusual Christmas I had was... ’ (this might be a surprise, or an unexpected [...]
– Suliat Wasswa – KDP Farm Manager The most unusual Christmas day I had was in 2006 when I was in primary six. It began, as usual, as people moved up and down buying cakes, meat, and drink. A day to celebrate for Christ is born. After the church service, people normally take lunch then [...]
– Teddy Nakyanzi - Trust High School teacher ‘Every person needs to explore their profession; a teacher yearns to be an examiner. I was excited to be nominated as one in 2017. It is a wonderful position to hold. The paper I was nominated to examine meant spending Christmas away from my family while doing [...]
- Fred Mukuza, KDP Business Operations manager ‘My grandmother was a very special person in all ways. She was a provider, a protector, and a pillar of strength. My father had died earlier in my life and my mother’s life moved on, so I went to live with my grandmother. After that Christmas in my [...]
- Peninah Mwagalwa, Nurse at Kabubbu Health Centre ‘At Christmas in Uganda we have a tradition of travelling from the towns and cities where we work to our villages, where we were born and raised. This is to visit our dear ones – our families. We must pay higher costs for transport than for other [...]
– Henry Lukwago, Trust High School student ‘Not like any other Christmas, the one of 2016 was really strange. I was woken up at 5.00am. "Wake up, wake up, go to the kitchen. Today you are in charge of preparing every meal” mum said. "You are kidding mum, not so?" I responded. She insisted. So, [...]
– Faridah Ndagire - PA to KDP Executive Director ‘Usually on Christmas, every home is full of food aroma, people put on new clothes specially bought for this day and it is all fun. But for me this had never been the case until I was 10 years old. I am the last born in [...]
– Dissan Taybwa - Trust High School student ‘The most unusual Christmas I had was when it approached the festival season, around 24th December, and we lacked food at home. Everybody was looking helplessly at each other. That amused us. What a laugh we had! Then we had a surprise of food from the wonderful [...]
– by Helen Nabachwa - Trust High School former student, now THS librarian. ‘Mum was my great hero. She made a lot of sacrifices to see me through childhood and school. She always advised me on how to become a strong, good living, upright child. One Christmas, she prepared food for the family and went [...]
- by Shakira Poni - Trust High School student ‘At noon, our grass thatched hut, our kitchen, showed no sign of smoke rising through the straw. I was getting hungry because of the cooking aroma coming from our neighbouring houses. My parents had failed to even afford to buy a silver fish as a Christmas [...]