Harriet Amongi From Despair to Redemption: How One Woman’s Broken Life Was Healed by Love By Harriet Amongi My name is Harriet Amongi. For a long time, I believed my life was a series of dead ends. I endured poverty, exploitation, heartbreak, and severe mental health struggles. But just when I was ready to […]
Niwalinda Mackline From Hardship to Happiness: How Meeting Point International Taught Me My True Value My name is Niwalinda Mackline. Before I found Meeting Point International, my life in Kireka was filled with overwhelming challenges. I was trapped in a cycle of worry, facing extreme hardships every single day: No school fees for my […]
Doreen Atim Doreen Atim is 63 years old. She came to Kampala after experiencing deep personal tragedy. Rebels killed both her father and her husband. After losing them, she was left alone to survive and did whatever jobs she could find to earn money for food. One day, she went to Acholi Quarter and noticed […]
I’m in the car with Rose, and she starts telling me a beautiful story, started long time ago… “In the past, especially in Kireka where we work, it was common to see men drunk even during the day – sometimes even the women. Alcoholism was everywhere, and with it came domestic violence.Now things have changed. […]
Hanifa Hanifa is 50 years old and she is the Office Attendant / Cleaner at Meeting Point International (MPI). She has five children, she used to have a big family with 14 children and grandchildren living together, recently one of her sons moved away with his own 5 kids. Now, she lives with 3 of […]
“Meeting Point is my life. Because the life of my children belongs to Meeting Point.” These are the words of Joyce Odida — a mother, a widow, and a resilient woman whose life has been marked by loss, struggle, and, above all, hope. Joyce is 56 and lives in the heart of Acholi Quarters, a […]
To tell the story of the incredible experience I had in Africa, I want to start from the return — from that long and sorrowful flight that brought me back home, a journey filled with memories and emotions, with one single question on my mind: When will I be able to return to Uganda? …Last […]
When Harriet Amongi was twelve years old her life was turned upside down. Harriet is a 40-year-old Langi from Lira, a district in the Northern part of Uganda, now residing in Wembley Kiyembe barracks, a suburb in Kampala, Uganda. As the eldest of five children, Harriet faced immense challenges after the loss of her parents. […]
One of the episodes that strikes me most from the life of Rose Busingye is what happened to her when she tried to respond to the need of some Ugandan women who were sick with AIDS. She was a nurse in Kampala and had made attempts to help these women, which she explained like this: […]
Esther’s life took a turn when she joined Primary Five and started getting support for her education at Meeting Point International (MPI) in 2008, where she continued her journey until Primary Seven. After her primary education, Esther joined Luigi Giussani High School for her secondary school education where she met faces that accompanied her to […]