{"id":179,"date":"2019-05-08T08:31:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T07:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amref.org\/ug\/?p=179"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:35:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T07:35:51","slug":"twinkle-eyes-cup-porridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amref.org\/uganda\/success-stories\/twinkle-eyes-cup-porridge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Twinkle in the Eyes for a Cup of Porridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Amoko Joseph. I am 13yrs old and I am a pupil at Unna Primary School.<\/p>\n

I am a refugee from South Sudan and my village back home was called Kerapi Village in Payaum District.<\/p>\n

I came to Uganda during the war, three years ago. I have 4 brothers and 2 sisters.
\nMy school is receiving one porridge meal every day. At school, we receive one porridge meal, every day.<\/p>\n

This porridge is very nice and I can now stay in school without having to walk home every day to have a meal.\u00a0 Many times, before the feeding program started, I would get a meal only when my mother was able to get the food but most days I wasn\u2019t even able to get food at home.<\/p>\n

My mother passed away during the killings in my home land and my father married again.\u00a0 My stepmother tries her best to feed us but we are too many. We are now seven and have an extended family which includes my grandmother and my mother\u2019s grandmother.<\/p>\n

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Today, because we receive porridge that we take during lunchtime, I am a happy boy and so are my brothers and sister who also study at Unna Primary School. I don\u2019t have to stay hungry and because of this, my performance has improved.<\/p>\n

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At mealtime, we sit together as friends and enjoy our porridge. I have more friends now and children no longer fight a lot at school.\u00a0 They used to fight because they were hungry.<\/p>\n

However, my elder sister is in another school that does not have this program. I wish Amref could provide more of this porridge to other schools that do not have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Amoko Joseph. I am 13yrs old and I am a pupil at Unna Primary School. I am a refugee from South Sudan and my village back home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[277,281,283,268,280,273,267,264,272,271,265,275,270,279,278,282,274,269,266,276],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amref.org\/uganda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/Every-grain-counts.jpg?fit=1111%2C631&ssl=1","yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n