I was born in 1993 in Uganda. My parents were Rwandan, but all my family died in the genocide and I became an orphan.
I had no one to help me, so I started to live on the streets. I lived there for five years and slept under a bridge at night. I found food in the trash dumps. I also caught some disease and I’ve had it for most of my life, but I don’t know what it is called or how to heal it. My friends all had the same lifestyle.
Then, I came to FIDESCO. The staff here helped me find a way to go to school, but everything else I have to do on my own. …
