Moses Safuri

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.  But, I am grateful to FIDESCO for helping me to attend school.  I have lived at FIDESCO for nine years now; I came here when I was 11 years old.

I want to be a good man – to have the abilities of a great man.  I want to become a doctor or a lawyer and fight corruption.  People don’t know what is right, like freedom and education.  I wish for Rwanda to become a place of good people where we have the power to help everyone who wants to improve their life.