An amazing scholar!

Sharon Tino

At a very young age, Educate! Scholar, Sharon Tino Alum was strongly instilled with her mother’s value for education. With this attitude, Sharon Tino, works hard to gain the most from her Educate! Experience.

Although her mother is no longer alive, Sharon recalls her mother’s struggle and determination to pursue her own university education in the U.K. while providing her five children the opportunity to attend some of the best schools in Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda.

The commitment she saw in her mother, motivates her even further to thrive intellectually. Even without the presence of her parents, Sharon is committed to her educational success and has plans of one day becoming a successful lawyer!

Patricia Akullu

Patricia Akullu

 As an Educate! Scholar, Patricia Akullu refuses to take her education for granted. She is also grateful for the exceptional opportunities that her parents have given her and her six siblings. 

Her mother and father have been determined to send all of their children to university, despite their modest earnings as a peasant farmer and nurse.  Her parents’ willpower has made her even more determined to gain a quality education. 

Excited to continue her education, Patricia plans to join her five siblings at Makarere University in Kampala. While there, she wants to study accounting and go on to one day become a successful accountant in her community!

Babra Alullo

Babra Alullo

Babra’s two younger siblings have had to sacrifice their own education because their mother’s meager farming income barely makes it possible to pay the school fees for one child. This inspires Babra to study even harder!

As Babra continues to study and gain an education, she plans to implement a community project with the guidance of her Educate! Mentor.

She hopes her project will generate income to pay her own fees, which would easy the burden on her mother and potential enable her other siblings to go to school as well.

Maureen Akech

Maureen Akech is no stranger to hard work and perseverance. When her parents passed away, Maureen Akech and her sister moved in with her aunt and uncle, who also support their own five children and two nephews.

Seeing the amount of work that was burdening her aunt and uncle, Maureen decided to pitch in some effort to help. Maureen tends to their crops and still focuses on her schoolwork, with the hope that she will one day hold a successful job and provide financial stability to the family.

As an Educate! Scholar, she aspires to become a successful lawyer and someone who is known for her valuable contributions and generosity not only to her family but also in her community!

Nuru Namono

Nuru Namono is an Educate! Scholar from eastern Uganda who demonstrates the potential of the next generation and illustrates the power of Educate!’s work. Several of Nuru’s friends did not have the opportunity to go to school and in order to make money they ended up resorting to prostitution in local bars.  Bothered the challenging situation she saw in her peers, Nuru decided to take action!

Dedicated to making a positive impact, Nuru motivated fourteen prostitutes from her local community to make fashionable clothes, which they were able to sell at a profit and earn a much needed source of income. Nuru didn’t stop there; together these young women organized a fashion show to promote their clothing line.

They have now formed a saving group with hopes that in the future they can become their own bosses. With the guidance of her Educate! Mentor, Nuru has positively transformed the course for many young women and the ripple she has created will be seen for generations to come.