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“Stella”, my mother, taught me by her example how fierce determination can achieve great things. But she taught me something else as well, which I now realise is so much more important that I am dedicating the rest of my life to it.

The “Rosie” in the Stella-Rosie Foundation is my husband’s late wife and the mother of my step-daughter. She missed three years of school during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in WW II, and spent the rest of her life as a scholar, teacher and advocate for multicultural education and international understanding.

The purpose of our foundation is to place deserving children in private schools so they can take advantage of the opportunities provided by such schools.I do not want anyone to think that I am criticising my country of birth for its public educational system. Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa with a population of 31 million. Education is a high priority for the government, but there are simply not enough resources to educate its children to the limit of their abilities.