My name is Ssenyange Robert, I am a twenty-three year old Christian, born in Uganda, Africa. Being an orphan myself along with my sister (Nantayi Harriet) and my brother (Godfrey Baziwane) is the main reason I started Vumbula Uganda Youth Home. Before all this happened, there was a war in my country, due to political matters. Many people, especially children were affected. Many lost their parents due to war. I lost my grandfather and aunt during the war, leaving my mother to raise not only us, but her sisters’ children as well. My mother struggled to raise us. We lived in a small house my mother built, using mud and tree branches.

My mother loved children so much she decided to help some of the orphans whom she found sleeping in the bush and alone without any shelter or food to eat. By then my mother could plant food just to feed us and when we got sick, she would give us herbal medicine. She could not afford the hospital.

When I was thirteen years old, my mother got very ill and passed away. We were left alone me, my sister, brother and the other fifteen children my mother was taking care of.