Uganda: Kasirye Gives Hope to Those in Despair

18 September 2013

Rogers Kasirye is touching and changing the lives of young people through a programme that seeks to turn prostitutes and drug addicts round to earn a living and have decent lives. Norman Katende writes

At the age of 11, Charity lost her mother to AIDS. She did not know where to go or who would take care of her since her mother was a single parent, enstranged from her relatives. They had lived in a rented house in Nakulabye Kiyaaye zone for years.She ended up sharing a house with sex workers who initiated her into drug use and alcohol consumption. By age 13, she had become a sex worker.

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