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Author:

Kaguri, Twesigye Jackson.

Title:

The price of stones : building a school for my village / Twesigye Jackson Kaguri ; with Susan Urbanek Linville.

Publisher:

Viking,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xiv, 271 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Nyaka AIDS Orphans School (Nyakagyezi, Uganda)
Children of AIDS patients--Education--Uganda.
Orphans--Education--Uganda.
AIDS (Disease)--Uganda.
Linville, Susan U.--(Susan Urbanek),--1956---Travel--Uganda.

Other Authors:

Linville, Susan U. (Susan Urbanek), 1956-
Kaguri, Twesigye Jackson. Nyaka.

Notes:

"This work was previously published by Mr. Kaguri in a different form under the title Nyaka: saving one child at a time"--T.p. verso.

Contents:

The line at our door -- The devil's hand -- The chicken is full of bones -- My brother's keeper -- Through the valley of the shadow -- The prospect of marriage -- The great escape -- Only one acre -- Plans -- The price of stones -- An article of faith -- Constructive solutions -- Being the man -- It is not enough to be sorry -- Two girls -- There are no streetlights -- My meeting with Mondo -- A song of hope and despair -- One never knows -- Cows in America -- If you do not reach, you cannot grasp -- Nothing worthwhile is easy -- Scovia -- Who is my neighbor? -- Big trucks and soda pop -- Ideas and ideals -- In that rich darkness -- More than a composition -- The brigadier -- One more grave -- A gathering of grannies -- Graduation day -- Help make a difference.

Summary:

A founder of the Nyaka and Kutamba AIDS Orphans Schools describes how he returned to his native Uganda after college and was compelled by the dire circumstances of his village's AIDS orphans to make tuition-free education available.

ISBN:

0670021849
9780670021840

OCLC:

(OCoLC)466335753

LCCN:

2009049271

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