My name is Mutebi Hakim. I am 20 years old. I am in S.3
My father is Muhindo Enock and my mother died while I was younger.
My father has more than 40 children and I’m one of the youngest. He is an African Tradition Healer and has many wives. He does not pay school fees for his children. I’m the only child in our family who has made it to high school. My siblings say I am wasting time and money but I’m happy to continue in school because I know that education can make me a better person. My grandmother on my mother’s side supported me through primary level but now she is old and sick and cannot pay those expenses. I work as a buildings potter in the holidays to support myself in school but now it has become very difficult to earn enough money to keep up with increasingly expensive school fees. I want to be an engineer and I want to complete my studies.
