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A friendship that became a promise
My name is Guilherme, and since I was a child I have helped raise money for children in Africa. A few years ago I started following Reach a Hand Acrobatics online. I watched their videos again and again, amazed at what these kids could do.
Then, three years ago, one of the boys was badly hurt. I gave what I could and prayed for him, and I have not forgotten him. Through that, I came to know Joseph Onyango, the coach. He is just one year younger than me. We have been friends ever since.
Joseph lives for his village and shares every blessing he gets. In rural Tororo, opportunity is scarce, and he saw that children needed somewhere to go after school. A place to learn real skills instead of wasting their time.
Joseph knows this struggle from the inside. He grew up in Katwe, one of the largest slums in Kampala, where his father worked hard to feed the family, pay the rent and keep the children in school. When secondary school came, Joseph could only go because a kind sponsor from the United States paid his fees for four years. That gift changed his life, and now he wants to pass it on.
In a world that limits them in so many ways, acrobatics lets them be free, in body and in mind.
He has coached them since 2021, and today 40 children train with him. But Joseph soon faced a harder truth: some of his acrobats could not go to school at all.
