Age 19

Gender Male

JOSEPH EPILU

SEX: Male

CLASS: Senior Three

AGE: 18 yrs

STATUS: Orphan (Father dead)

DREAM: Doctor

CLASS	Senior Three
AGE	18 years
DATE OF BIRTH	16th August 2005
FAVOURITE SUBJECT	Christian Religious Education
DREAM CAREER	Doctor
Which activities do you engage in whenever you’re at home during holidays?	-          Digging with my mother and siblings. -          Grazing cattle.
What do you enjoy doing with much interest? (Your hobbies)	·         Playing football. ·         Church fellowship
Favourite Bible verse:	John 14:6 Jesus is the way, truth and life. No one goes to the father except through Him (Jesus)
How does it impact you?	Because I accepted Christ, I am sure that I now reach to my God directly and no lie can take over me since the truth Christ is in me.
Favourite Bible story	The story of Cain and Abel Abel gave a fat and nice looking ram to God and his sacrifice was appreciated yet Cain brought remains of crops which God never appreciated. Cain then decided to kill his brother Abel.
What do you learn from the story?	Ø  I learn to give and serve God with all my heart without grumbling or complaining. Ø  I shouldn’t be jealous to other people.

Joseph is a born and resident of Okalis village in Soroti district, Eastern Uganda. He is the third born out of eight children, and is the first boy at home.

The father died in 2019 while Joseph was in his P.7 vacation awaiting results to join secondary school. Joseph says he first lost hope since his father who was paying his school fees had died; he thought his studies had come to an end, however God helped him to be courageous and hopeful and later joined Light Academy for his secondary education.

Joseph’s mother deals in sale of second hand clothes and also small scale farming. She uses the little earning to cater for the family needs and also meets a few school needs for her children. Joseph has two siblings Barbra and Jonathan who are also at Light Academy with him but the school dues are so overwhelming to their mother.

During holidays, Joseph goes to construction sites where he works to earn some money for his school requirements. At home they have some land which Joseph and siblings cultivate before going back to school; then the mother plants and weeds, and these children do the harvesting when they come back from school. Unfortunately some seasons don’t yield well due to weather changes and this also challenges them as a family since they sometimes don’t have enough food. Being a boy, very many times Joseph is looked at as the family’s bread winner most especially during holidays.

Joseph says he wants to be a Doctor so as to save people’s lives, fights against bribery and poor service delivery in Uganda’s hospitals.