NABAALE CATHERINE

Background

Catherine is left with 2 years to complete High school. She is not in school now due to lack of schoolfees.

She was abandoned by her father together with her siblings when she was still a baby. Her father stays in Katanga slum and works in the city council authority as a garbage collector but he refused to support his children in anyway financially and this has been like this for so many years.

Catherine’s mother is unemployed and can not be able to take care of her children and also pay for their school fees. Due to lack of income, her mother now stays with one of her relatives because she can not afford a house to stay in with her children.

Catherine stays with her brother in a single room in Katanga Slum, her brother is a footballer at a local village club and only paid some little money occasionally when he gets a contract. Sometimes his brother engages in doing casual jobs in the slum like loading or offloading firewood to be able to support his sisters.

On very few occasions, she is supported by the mother when she gets some casual work to do. Catherine was not able to go to school the previous term and this current school term because of lack of school fees.

Catherine is looking for a sponsor to support her attain a good and stable education so that she attains her dream of becoming a Journalist.