Once again I am happy to be able to communicate with you all.
I have been going through orientation the whole of last week and this very Monday has been the very first day of my lectures!
I wanted to share this great feeling I experienced to be in school.
I am so excited I can’t describe the feeling but I am determined to do and be the best, thank you for this great opportunity you have paved to give me a second chance to make something of myself and future.
Before school began, I used to get some intelligent questions asked by some of you like.. what I have been doing as I was waiting for school to begin?
I also want to share something different that you people have the inspiration.
A journey of 1000miles they say begins with one step.
And my come back story starts at the hospital(Haydom) where we met in Tanzania where I was nursed back to health.
Sometime mid last year before even Mr Jonas created the website having my dreams on it!! I had already decided to make sense of my life and share my remarkable story to positively influence different people.
My story was carried far and this has seen me visit schools, churches and hospitals encouraging and counseling through my life experiences.
It’s a story that draws an inspiration of the kindness and care you people and Tanzanians showed me and my mum on my death bed for which we will always be most grateful.
It was a simple way of trying to give back for what I have benefitted with( life, love and going back to school)
My experience of meeting, sharing and counseling with hurting people who had my story brought me face to face with different people and stories.
People stuck between the choices to have there limbs amputated that they consented when they saw me.
Amputee youth suffering the post trauma effects of there accident some really depressed and suicidal . so I started some small charity group called second chances Uganda to find solutions to the challenges we face as young amputees .
Coming together in small groups has been a good beginning, we encourage one another, build one another because of the stigma associated with disability in our society .
It has registered some credit with helping some suicidal young men cope with there challenges, helped counsel injured to accept medical solutions (amputation)
Also started a whattsap group and a Facebook page that has linked us up and helped a friend who has been able to leave the house for years owing to his injuries from his fatal accident .
Hoping to register it sometime in the future after am done with my degree because we want to have an organized structure . I will always keep you people posted about the whole progress.
But so far school is the best thing that has happened to me and am giving it all my best.
I will be giving some small time for second chances Uganda once a week/2weeks as it has been the case to grow it to a capacity building organisation.
I will also be grateful for your advise as we progress .
I owe so much of the man I am becoming to you people. Your my role models and mentors.
Please always feel free to counsel me and talk to me , it means a lot to me since am a young man growing up into the person I dream to be!!
Thank you for the opportunity of school.
I appreciate you all
Paul Kalungi
First year nursing student
Regards
Paul Kalungi's Dreams 