A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka - Softcover

Kaguri, Twesigye Jackson; Linville, Susan Urbanek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143119125 ISBN 13: 9780143119128

Publisher: The Penguin Press, 2011

Synopsis

A School for My Village Kaguri overcame tremendous odds as he followed his dream to build a school for AIDS orphans in his village in Uganda. "A School for My Village" weaves together tales from his youth and his inspiring account of building the school and changing the lives of many children. Full description

About this title

About the Author:

Twesigye Jackson Kaguri was raised in Uganda, graduated from Makerere University, and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University. He is a director of development at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, and the founder and director of the Nyaka and Kutamba AIDS Orphans Schools in Uganda. He has been named a CNN Hero and a Heifer International Hero, and was recently awarded the Waislitz Global Citizen Award by the Global Poverty Project. He splits his time between Michigan and Uganda.

Susan Urbanek Linville, a biologist and writer, lives in Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Penguin Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0143119125
• ISBN 13: 9780143119128
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288