Stars Ministries Uganda (SMU)

Pricilla and some of her craftwork   Meet Pricilla Kabasinguzi, the 14-year-old Star (a Star is a child with a disability), who lives with a brittle bones’ disability. Pricilla speaks well and can feed herself; everything else, however,  is  done with the help of another person. Pricilla lives with her mother who works as a cook. Her mother, however, has not worked since March 2020 because the institution where she works at halted operations due to COVID-19. Pricilla was registered with Stars Ministry Uganda (SMU) in 2014, when a church member introduced the work of SMU to her father . At that time, Pricilla could not express herself and had very low self-esteem, in addition to her disability. Her parents were afraid of releasing their daughter for fear that someone might break her already weak bones. SMU would later learn that this fear was also heightened by experiences that Pricilla had in a normal school, where both teachers and other school children were scared of handling her b