Brilliant but helpless
Mar 13, 2005
Just when she was almost sure to take hold of a bright future, Beatrice Nakafuma’s wishes and dreams seem to have come tumbling down.
By Patience Atuhaire
Just when she was almost sure to take hold of a bright future, Beatrice Nakafuma’s wishes and dreams seem to have come tumbling down.
The 16-year-old would love to become a medical doctor once she succeeds to continue with her education. But she is not even sure she will have her next meal.
“I am lucky to have been admitted back to my O’ Level school, Trinity College Nabbingo, but unfortunately, I owe the school a long overdue debt of sh190,000 and cannot raise sh532,400 for Senior Five entrance,†Nakafuma says.
The new term has already commenced. “The school was kind enough to let me sit my O’ Level exams because they believed in my excellence. That opportunity too ran out and now, I have no where to turn,†she says. Nakafuma pursued arts and science subjects, but excelled with a distinction two (D2) in Physics, D1 in Maths and Chemistry and a four in Biology.
This was not a surprise since she had always appeared among the first 10 students in her class from Senior One.
Nakafuma wishes to study Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology to fulfil her dream of becoming a doctor, but her future now looks bleak unless someone comes to her rescue.
Nakafuma lost her father when she was a toddler. Flavia Nakawooya, her mother, has single-handedly tried to raise a family of three kids. She sells sweet bananas in Kawempe, Kakungulu zone, where the family resides.
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Just when she was almost sure to take hold of a bright future, Beatrice Nakafuma’s wishes and dreams seem to have come tumbling down.
The 16-year-old would love to become a medical doctor once she succeeds to continue with her education. But she is not even sure she will have her next meal.
“I am lucky to have been admitted back to my O’ Level school, Trinity College Nabbingo, but unfortunately, I owe the school a long overdue debt of sh190,000 and cannot raise sh532,400 for Senior Five entrance,†Nakafuma says.
The new term has already commenced. “The school was kind enough to let me sit my O’ Level exams because they believed in my excellence. That opportunity too ran out and now, I have no where to turn,†she says. Nakafuma pursued arts and science subjects, but excelled with a distinction two (D2) in Physics, D1 in Maths and Chemistry and a four in Biology.
This was not a surprise since she had always appeared among the first 10 students in her class from Senior One.
Nakafuma wishes to study Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology to fulfil her dream of becoming a doctor, but her future now looks bleak unless someone comes to her rescue.
Nakafuma lost her father when she was a toddler. Flavia Nakawooya, her mother, has single-handedly tried to raise a family of three kids. She sells sweet bananas in Kawempe, Kakungulu zone, where the family resides.
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