People Stories

– 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, [...]

– 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 [...]

- 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 [...]

- 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. [...]

– 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 [...]

– 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 [...]

– 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 [...]

– 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 [...]

- 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 [...]

- by Resty Nankinga. 'In Kabubbu the head of a family worries about what they will feed their children at Christmas. This is because Christmas is a special day when we long to have something [...]