Ugandan University graduate is using his savings to rent out a small room in city slum to provide a home for over 50 orphaned children. Syrill Kiiza quit his job at an insurance company in Kampala to look after the abandoned children.
The Twenty five year old had to dig deep to furnish the house with at least blankets and mattress for the children. Syrill desire to help orphanage shildren comes from an experience of growing up in the slum, hawking jewelry and struggling to get an education after his mother died.
Most of the children under the young man’s help were either abandoned by their mothers or orphaned due to HIV/AIDs, they are mostly aged between 5 months and 15 years of age.
In the one bedroom house, 10 manage to share a bed, while the rest lie on the floor. Until it rains, the house gets flooded leading a long sleepless night.
Syrill has managed to secure donations that aid him in proving the basics to the children, but for the children infected with HIV/AIDs it is hard to give them special diet or purchase the medication.
With donations from friends the young man has constructed a school for the orphans to study, although the classes aren’t enough to grant the orphans a passable lower education certificate.
Even with the difficulties that Syrill has encountered, he remains hopeful that he will complete the education facility with credentials to operate as a fully fledged school. He also hopes to get a better place to move the orphans, rescue more children when he raises more finances.
