Place Namatala, Mbale, Uganda

Age 13

Gender Female

Grade P3

Life Story Tracy is needy 12 years old girl in P.3 class at Namatala Primary School. She is the 3rd of 5 siblings. She is staying with the uncle who rescued her from the streets after the parents got misunderstandings and separated. Due to alcoholism, the father beat the mother until she was unconscious. The community members helped and took the wife to the hospital as police took the husband was sentenced to life imprisonment. The children were rescued by the relatives whereby each child was taken by different well-wishers and relatives. Tracy was picked by her uncle who is also struggling to take care of his own family with difficult in affording food, rent, beddings, clothing and medical care. The uncle has failed to raise money for Tracy to go to school. Tracy loves being at church (Ebenezer Baptist church). Her best subject is mathematics, she loves playing netball and skipping a rope. If God provides, she would like to be a Nurse. Her prayer is that God miraculously provides for her family especially school fees.