Marvin’s Message: LEAD is “Helping Me Stay in School”

Greetings from Sports Outreach!

This month we have the opportunity to hear from Marvin, a primary student attending a village school in northern Uganda. He does such a good job of sharing that we’ll just leave it to him!

Lubangadit Marvin at home

My name is Lubangadit Marvin, and I am in primary six at SOM Primary School in Pugwinyi. I was born on 27 July 2010, and this year I will be 14. I was born to a single mother, the sixth out of seven children, and I have three sisters and three brothers. I have never known who my father is and the only parent I have known all through my life is my mother. I have also never asked who my father is since this is not culturally accepted. My mother is so loving and caring to all of us, and she tries to ensure that we all get the basic needs. Due to the rising costs of education, we sometimes cannot all go to school at the same time.

I would like to thank Sports Outreach and those who give so that I can stay in school. The LEAD program makes me feel sure I can go to school every term without worrying about being sent home because of unpaid fees. I have attended several boarding or primary schools and now I am in an SOM primary school. The reason why I kept changing schools was because I lacked guidance from home, and I was joining bad groups of children who were not interested in education. My life has changed a lot through the guidance I received after going to an SOM primary school.

I love SOM primary school because apart from normal classroom lessons, we are taught chess, soccer, and computer, and we have daily

Bible studies. The teachers also give us life skills where male teachers talk to the boys and female teachers talk to the girls. I would not be benefiting from all these things without the LEAD program.

During school holidays I am now able to help my mother raise money for school requirements and can look after my sister while my mother is away at work. This holiday, I molded bricks in my neighborhood. I learned at school that the Bible teaches us that those who do not work should not eat, and that God will bless the work of our hands. I want to study hard and become an aircraft engineer so that I can help to service the aircraft in our airport and support my mother.

Thank you, Sports Outreach and all the sponsors for helping me stay in school. May God bless you all.

We add our thanks to those of Marvin and as always, we would welcome any assistance you might be able to provide to Sports Outreach’s LEAD Education Program. God is using it, not only to keep students in school, but to impart the Word of God into their lives.

Serving Together, The Ministry Team at Sports Outreach

Story from February 2024