Today we visited Uganda Christian University, an 11-year-old university just outside of Kampala with a population of over 6,000 students. Unless you're new to this blog, you're probably familiar with Compassion's $32/month child sponsorship program and the enormous impact it has in the lives of children. You may not know that these children also have a chance to obtain a university education through the Leadership Development Program. We saw this in action today. Over 100 graduates of the child sponsorship program attend Uganda Christian University, and we had the chance to meet many of them. Each one of these students came from a background of extreme poverty and broke the cycle with the help of Compassion's ministry. These students have unique and interesting stories to tell. We captured four of these and will share them with you.
Here's the first one. This young lady was sponsored by a family in California when she was in the second grade. She is the second oldest of seven siblings and is the first person in her family to achieve a secondary (high school) education. She's now in the first semester of her freshman year and is studying accounting. She and I had some enlightening conversations about debits and credits, but I won't bore you with that. I'll let her tell you a more interesting story.
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