Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
On Friday, November 26, 2010, St. Mark's warmly welcomes Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, Executive Director of the Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project in Uganda.
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri and his wife, Beronda, founders of the Nyaka School for Orphans have shown that we can all make a difference. The Nyaka School for Orphans was established purposely because of the plight of orphans in the village of Nyakagyezi in Uganda, East Africa. It was founded in order to accommodate, feed, educate and inspire the hundreds of children in that area of Uganda whose parents had died of HIV/AIDS, and left them in the hands of many helpless grandparents. Twesigye Jackson Kaguri was born and raised in southwestern Uganda in Nyakagyezi village, Kambuga currently in Kanungu District where he went to school. He joined Columbia University in New York as a visiting scholar, studying human rights, started a human right organization in Uganda and later a school for HIV/AIDS orphans. He has written a book about the school, The Price of Stones: Building a School For My Village.
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