{"id":7460,"date":"2017-07-17T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/?p=7460"},"modified":"2024-10-11T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T10:10:06","slug":"i-have-been-educated-on-how-to-stay-with-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetingpoint-int.org\/home\/2017\/07\/17\/i-have-been-educated-on-how-to-stay-with-people\/","title":{"rendered":"I have been educated on how to stay with people."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In Acholi quarter, Kireka, there\u2019s a rather exceptional woman named Akullu Margret. With a stunning smile she tells me she has always considered herself to be a lucky woman. She never went to school but, living with Women of Meeting Point International (MPI), she was being educated on how to stay with people, neighbours and even to do business.  She considers herself lucky ever since she met MPI, she has also started a business selling charcoal (used for cooking food) which enables her to earn a living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As she carrying on with her daily work, she noticed one thing in particular; during the day she met a lot of men, women, and children who were at home who seemed to be doing nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She joined MPI in 1999 after facing a lot of problems which had not only made her feel like an animal but also unable to live with people because she was always fearful. She remembers standing outside MPI watching the women gathering, then Rose (Director MPI) invited her in, she entered and felt welcomed for the first time ever.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Margret: \u201cI saw a white man sitting beside Rose, he had this smiling face, he took a photo of me with my child. When he returned to Italy, he framed it and sent it back to me, through Aunt Rose. We then started a friendship and a few years later, he started supporting me and my family\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MPI started taking her children to school while she, on the other, hand started thinking of ways of supplementing her husband\u2019s income from his job in the stone quarry. The moment Margret realized her infinite value, this introduced an openness in her. It was then that she started desiring to pay for her children\u2019s requirements and to start a Charcoal business. She used the profit to buy a small plot of land to build a house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is now a mother to 12 children, of which six are her own and the other six orphans, all sponsored by MPI. She is able to pay for her children\u2019s requirements and has also opened a shop for the husband to work in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Lumanyika Bright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Acholi quarter, Kireka, there\u2019s a rather exceptional woman named Akullu Margret. With a stunning smile she tells me she has always considered herself to be a lucky woman. She never went to school but, living with Women of Meeting Point International (MPI), she was being educated on how to stay with people, neighbours and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-of-hope"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t