‘I didn’t have a bed. Compassion provided for our family and told me about Jesus’

Faith Nalukwago shares her story

Twenty-five-year-old Faith Nalukwago grew up in the village of Kabale, around 25km north-west of Kampala, Uganda. One of eight children, her family lived in a small mud hut. Her parents couldn’t afford to send them all to school; in her early childhood only her eldest brother attended while the rest spent time at home, doing chores. Food was difficult to obtain; her parents were subsistence farmers with limited means of generating income. They grew bananas and cassava but there was little else. They didn’t have beds – Faith’s parents would fill sacks with grass to be used as bedding.