U.S. Awards Ugandan Women of Courage - Education Category Winner

Ayuru Beatrice Byaruhanga, from the Kakoge Village in Lira, Northern Uganda, is
a teacher. Her dream was to build a nursery, primary and secondary school in Lira during the LRA war. She started with a few shillings and a desire to improve the lives of girls in Northern Uganda. Ms. Ayuru obtained ancestral land from her father, where she grew and sold cassava. She used the profits to buy and rent out wheelbarrows to local workers, reinvested her profits in a canteen, and used the canteen profits and the ancestral land as collateral to obtain a loan to establish the Lira Integrated Nursery, Primary and Secondary School. Lira Integrated School is funded, in part, by agricultural and aquacultural ventures that teach entrepreneurship skills to students and members of the Lira community. Ms. Ayuru is currently leading an effort to create a Lira Integrated University on the same land where the nursery, primary, and secondary schools now sit. She and her husband, George Byaruhanga, have six children aged four to 20.

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