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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The tears of joy that Isaac Kashangani shed after emerging as one of Mbale\u2019s best 2023 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) pupils have now turned into pain.<\/b><\/p>\n

Kashangani, a former pupil of Excel Talent Education Centre in Mbale District, scored aggregate six and was the only pupil who got a first grade in his school.<\/p>\n

Lack of school fees for O-level has become Kashangani\u2019s nightmare and he is stuck at home. His colleagues [the S.1 students] joined secondary on February 12 while others on February 18 but Kashangani has failed to get admission to any school over lack of tuition.<\/p>\n

Press learnt that even at the primary level, the 14-year-old boy was being sponsored by his former school as his father Fredrick Maiki could not afford to pay school fees or buy requirements for his son.<\/p>\n

Kashangani\u2019s mother, Ms Bennah Khalayi, 36, says she is poor and has struggled to raise six children.<\/p>\n

Despite the availability of free education under Universal Secondary Education (USE), students are still required to pay a certain percentage of school dues and pay for other scholastic materials, a cost Kashangani cannot afford.<\/p>\n

Kashangani, who was found at his home in Bunalwela \u201cA\u201d Village, Bushangi parish in Bukiende Sub-County, Mbale district with his mother and siblings on February 11 (Sunday), wants to become an engineer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe live a miserable life because we don’t even have food, accommodation, and clothes. My parents have no money to take me to school and yet I am ready to join the senior one like my colleagues,\u201d said Kashangani who could not hold his tears.<\/p>\n

According to him, he suffered a lot to complete the primary level.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven completing my primary seven has not been easy. I wish I had been born into a well-off family like some of my colleagues. By now I would be preparing to report to school but one day God will answer my prayers. I am here to plead with the government and well-wishers to find me some school fees so that I can join secondary school,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ms Khalayi narrated how she has struggled to look for school fees but without success and reiterated that her first son needs school fees.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not able to meet his school fees and other requirements because I also depend on well-wishers to get what to eat. I call on people to help my son realize his education dreams,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The family stays in an incomplete mud and wattle house.<\/p>\n

His former teacher, Ms Jessica Kakai, described Kashangani as a bright, humble, religious, and hardworking boy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis boy made us proud by getting into first grade. It\u2019s because I don\u2019t have money but I could help this boy for the good of his future. We appeal to all good Samaritans out there to come in and help this bright boy, Ms Kakai said.<\/p>\n

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