{"id":7428,"date":"2015-10-24T05:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T05:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2024-10-11T10:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T10:16:36","slug":"studying-became-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/2015\/10\/24\/studying-became-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying Became Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mwaka-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5475\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mwaka Emmanuel is a 25-year-old boy born in Naguru a suburb of Kampala district, He encountered MEETING POINT INTERNATIONAL through His mother (ALOYO SYLVIA) who was a client. He tells his story here below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got the opportunity to study with the help of MEETING POINT INTERNATIONAL, I never had a thought that I would make it in my education following the event of 2012 when we had a strike at school (CITY HIGH SCHOOL), I was pointed out as a ringleader for the strike and I was asked by the school to come along with my parent.&nbsp; I didn\u2019t care so I did not tell my mother.&nbsp; I stayed in the village looking for what to do, I got a job of loading and offloading sacks of food and one time, I was arrested.&nbsp; regardless of what&nbsp; happened, I never lost hope because of the friendship my mother had with Aunt Rose ( MPI Director) I say this because&nbsp; in 2014, to my greatest surprise, my mother told me that there was a chance for me, Meeting Point International had got a sponsor for me ,I was overjoyed that I asked to join Luigi Giussani High school where I completed my ordinary level and was awarded a certificate which enabled me to join an institute&nbsp; known as YMCA Comprehensive Institute where I took up&nbsp; a course&nbsp; in travel and tourism management because I liked traveling to different places, discovering new things ,this has been my desire since my childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During my studies, one thing that kept me going was the conversation that I had with Aunt Rose; when she asked me why I dropped out in the first place and I told her that it was because of stubbornness, she told me if you desired to ever go back to school there is always a chance for you, for this reason, studying became interesting because Aunt Rose cared for me and now I have finished my course, I am now&nbsp;looking for a job to take care of my family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Compiled by Jude<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mwaka Emmanuel is a 25-year-old boy born in Naguru a suburb of Kampala district, He encountered MEETING POINT INTERNATIONAL through His mother (ALOYO SYLVIA) who was a client. He tells his story here below. I got the opportunity to study with the help of MEETING POINT INTERNATIONAL, I never had a thought that I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-of-hope"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7429,"href":"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428\/revisions\/7429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}