Since I was quite young, I showed a sincere interest in learning about where my parents came from. My Mom and Dad immigrated to Canada from Uganda when Idi Amin Dada ruled. Forced out of the country, my father stayed with a foster home in England while my mother found refuge at a camp in Italy. In the fall of 2005, frustrated with the amount of negativity in the world, I began posting on an online blog about world issues. After deciding to reach out, Ashley Bondad and I started a high school club with the purpose of sponsoring children overseas.
As the project was successful, in 2007, Ashley and I gathered a group of students and founded Student Reach International, an organization fully dedicated to providing students humanitarian opportunities. In 2010, SRI transitioned into a charitable organization called I Have Hope In The Fight Against AIDS. The project that spearheaded the organization was called Reach Lesotho, which we developed a curriculum for and engaged multiple high schools in. Part of the project was a documentary, which I had the honour of directing alongside Jake Chirico. Our film will be premiering at the Harbourfront Centre on World AIDS Day, 2011
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