Patience Namuli and Sharon Nanyunja have been beneficiaries of the Road to Hope program since 2016 after they lost their father to bone cancer in November 2015. Their mother; Eseza Kyampire got to know about the program when the palliative care team organized a memorial service for the deceased beneficiaries in January 2016, they invited her and also asked her to go along with the children.

After weeks, she was asked to take the children to Little Hospice offices in Hoima and the officials captured the details of the children including taking their photographs. A few days to the reopening of schools, Eseza received a call from one of the palliative care officials from Little Hospice Hoima, Octivia Naziwa telling her that the children had been enrolled on the Road to Hope Programme. Eseza was instructed to find a school for the children.

The children were first enrolled in one of the primary school in Kiboga district but a year later they were shifted to God is Able Nursery and Primary school based in Hoima district for easy monitoring. Eseza testifies that enrolling the children on to the programme was a big relief.

“Had it not been for the programme, my children could never have gone to school because I am a stay home mother with no source of income,” she notes.

Eseza earns a living by attending to gardens in her community. Eseza who is battling with chronic ulcers and HIV is currently staying at her parents’ home in Kalagala village in Kyankwanzi district together with her two daughters. Additionally, the programme has provided food for Eseza and the children especially during the COVID 19 pandemic plus beddings. The most pressing need is that Eseza and her children do not have a permanent home. She wishes to have a permanent home,” she notes and appeals to the program officials to build for her a home. Patience & Sharon are in primary four and primary six respectively at God is Able Nursery & Primary School – Hoima.