The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village
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The extraordinary story of Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, a man from rural Uganda who, after settling in America, returned to his hometown to build a tuition-free school for orphans. Publishers Weekly So many people die of AIDS in Uganda that at times bodies are stacked in city mortuaries like firewood. Moved by the plight of more than one million AIDS orphans in a nation with a population of 30 million, Kaguri, a human rights advocate returning home after studying at Columbia University, decided to build a school for children who had lost one or both parents to the syndrome. Kaguri and his American wife used their modest resources and contributions from friends and churches to open the two-classroom Nyaka AIDS Orphans School and initiate advocacy campaigns to counteract the superstitions that have stigmatized HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Anecdotes about the students, the author’s family—his own brother and sister died from the disease—and his dealings with donors and corrupt officials, reveal Kaguri to be at once vulnerable and ferociously determined. Written in simple, straightforward style, the book is an affecting and accessible tribute to the difference one person can make in the world. (Jun.)
Introduction 1Chapter 1 The Line at Our Door 5Chapter 2 The Devil's Hand 11Chapter 3 The Chicken Is Full of Bones 17Chapter 4 My Brother's Keeper 26Chapter 5 Through the Valley of the Shadow 33Chapter 6 The Prospect of Marriage 43Chapter 7 The Great Escape 53Chapter 8 Only One Acre 62Chapter 9 Plans 69Chapter 10 The Price of Stones 79Chapter 11 An Article of Faith 88Chapter 12 Constructive Solutions 94Chapter 13 Being the Man 101Chapter 14 It Is Not Enough to Be Sorry 106Chapter 15 Two Girls 110Chapter 16 There Are No Streetlights 118Chapter 17 My Meeting with Mondo 127Chapter 18 A Song of Hope and Despair 134Chapter 19 One Never Knows 141Chapter 20 Cows in America 149Chapter 21 If you Do Not Reach, You Cannot Grasp 159Chapter 22 Nothing Worthwhile Is Easy 169Chapter 23 Scovia 175Chapter 24 Who Is My Neighbor? 181Chapter 25 Big Trucks and Soda Pop 188Chapter 26 Ideas and Ideals 197Chapter 27 In That Rich Darkness 205Chapter 28 More Than a Composition 211Chapter 29 The Brigadier 222Chapter 30 One More Grave 232Chapter 31 A Gathering of Grannies 238Chapter 32 Graduation Day 249Afterword 259Glossary 265Acknowledgments 267Help Make a Difference 269
