A dolly elephant with a fairly pink trunk sits on the table at momma Suzan Bagaya’s house in Watoto's Suubi Children’s Village. The interior walls are covered with pictures of her and her sponsors, and those of her children with their sponsors. A pink butterfly shaped pillow sits directly below the picturesque wall.
“I love my sponsors and continually go over the letters that they write to me because they are like friends to me. We laugh and cry together. They encourage me with scripture every time I have a challenge in the house and they are very grateful for the work I do,” she says while referring to Agnes from Canada, one of her sponsors.
Her daughter, Susan Naluswata, 21, has been at Watoto since 1999 and is currently at university in Kampala, Uganda. “What thrills and humbles me is to know that there are people who care so much about someone they barely know,” she says.
"That is truly a noble act. And it has changed my life."
“I look at sponsorship as mentorship because of the encouragement and growth that the children and moms receive from their sponsors. Really the sponsored children and moms have bigger brothers and sisters that they look up to,” comments Nancy Nandudu, one of the sponsorship coordinators in Uganda.
You too can become a big brother or sister if you aren’t one already.
Write to us today at watotoambassador@watoto.com and help us spread the word to mobilise more big brothers and sisters for our Watoto children, moms, teachers and Living Hope women. Go to the Watoto Sponsorship programme for more information.
