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This week on TALK! with AUDREY : My guest this week is TWESIGYE JACKSON KAGURI, author of THE PRICE OF STONES.
Growing up in rural Uganda, Kaguri overcame poverty to earn a degree from the national university and worked as a human rights advocate, eventually making his way to pursue studies at Columbia University. When he returned to his village in Uganda with his wife, they were overwhelmed by the plight of his village’s many AIDS orphans and vowed to open the first tuition-free school in the district for these children. Faced with many daunting obstacles, including little money, skepticism among friends in both the U.S. and Uganda, corrupt school inspectors, and a lack of supplies, he and his wife doggedly built one classroom after another until they had an accredited primary school filled with students
dreaming of becoming the future doctors, teachers, lawyers, engineers, and even presidents of Uganda.
THE PRICE OF STONES is the stirring story behind the Nyaka AIDS Orphans School. Weaving together tales from his youth with the
enormously inspiring account of the remarkable challenges and triumphs of the school, Kaguri shows how someone with a modest idea is capable of monumental results.