Christopher Rugadya

 Christopher, 21, and his sister Jane, are the only Educate! students who are not refugees. Educate! felt that due to his and his sister’s academic excellence and potential, they deserved an Educate! scholarship, even though we typically only offer them for refugees.

Christopher is currently attending the Ishaka School of Nursing. Previously, he attended Duhaga Secondary School. He specialized in the sciences with the hopes of becoming a doctor in the future. In school he works towards this goal by caring for and helping the sick in the hospital.

Outside the school, Christopher works to provide health education and make his community more aware of the problem of STDs. A very skilled linguist, Christopher was appointed by Unicef to teach adolescents about STDs. He now travels on the bicycle Unicef gave him and teaches other youth about the dangers of STDs and methods of protection. Christopher initially had STD training in Ordinary level when he was secretary of the Straight Talk Club but has since taken classes from Unicef. He is particularly qualified for this job because he speaks seven languages - English, Kishwahiili, Runyoro, Alur, A choli, Rugungu, Lendu, and Langi.

In addition to his studies and his work for Unicef, Christopher enjoys playing indoor and outdoor sports, such as soccer, ludo, Snakes and Ladder and Scrabble. Christopher also likes to listen to slow music such as Gospel and loves traveling and reading story books and novels.

“With Educate!, mere words can not explain how much good things it has so far done and still doing to me because my future is education, which Educate! has freely offered to me.”

-Christopher