My 2010 Trip
to a Secondary School in Northern Uganda (Page 6 of 8: "Meeting William
and Oyet")
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Introduction to the images on this page: In the late part of 2007, Betty (the founder of the school) told me about a teenage refugee named William. William's mother and father were murdered in 1996 by a terrorist group from southern Sudan. He was only 6 years old at the time. His older sister took over the responsibility of taking care of him. However, she also was murdered by the same terrorist group in 2006. Following the death of his sister, William decided that he wanted to become a terrorist himself so that he could avenge the death of his family. Betty told me that William needed a financial sponsor in order for him to stay at her school, which would also provide William with an alternative to choosing a meaningless life of terrorism and violence. I agreed to begin financially sponsoring William at the beginning of 2008. (It costs less than $50 per month to sponsor a student at the school.) William's life was transformed! He gave up the desire to become a terrorist! He become an encouragement to the other students at the school. Other teen-agers who were refugees came to Betty's school as a result of William's influence! One of these students was named Oyet. I met William (who is no longer at the school) and Oyet when I was in Uganda. Oyet had just recently graduated. Oyet told me that he wanted to study psychology in college and that he needed a financial sponsor to attend a university in Uganda. I agreed to be his sponsor.
This is William, the student I formerly supported at the school.
We met in the city of Arua.
From left to right: Oyet, William, and myself.
This was one of my best experiences of the week!
This is Oyet standing in front of a sign for the refugee settlement that both he and William came from.
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