“The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village” with Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.
Jackson Kaguri was raised in Uganda, graduated from Makerere University, attended graduate school in the U.S. and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University. He is the founder and director of the Nyaka and Kutamba AIDS Orphans Schools in Uganda and the author of the recently released “The Price of Stones”, the stirring story behind the founding of his schools. In the book he weaves together inspiring accounts of building the first school stone by stone against tremendous odds to meet needs of the growing number of children in his town left orphaned by AIDS. Kaguri shows how one person with a modest idea is capable of achieveing monumental results.
He weas recently featured in the June 14 issue of TIME Magazine in an article intitled “Power of One”. As the article states, “He had an American job, an American wife and the beginnings of a down payment to buy a house. Then in April 2001, he took his wife to visit his home village and the grannies flooded in seeking help raising their grandchildren left orphaned by AIDS.” His life has not been the same since.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Admission is free.