My name is * Winnie Nakato*. I am a 15 -year-old Rwandan who has lived in Uganda all my life. My mother died when I was only nine months and I only met my father last year. So, there is little I know about parental love.
I was raised by an uncle and his wife in Kyankwanzi. Life was not easy because I was beaten for every little mistake I made. I had no one else to turn to because that was the only family I knew.
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