Monday 14 November, 2022 was indeed a lucky day for a kid who was caught attempting to break into a mobile money booth around Bulange Mengo.
A 15 year old Junior Kasasa had been working at a washing bay in Mengo where he was getting some money for survival but the road was closed on his side when he left the bay and getting food now is a tag of war. Kasasa now has to hit the street and work really had to get what to eat, he says if he doesn’t get any money from begging, then he has no option than to steal.
Thanks to a one big kind hearted Isaac Waggala who rescued him from torture he was going through. Waggala intervened in the situation and requested the police and army officers to allow him interrogate the boy who later on revealed that he tried to steal in order to get money to buy something to eat after spending without anything to eat.
While at the bay, Kasasa recounts giving his boss less money whenever he gets a chance to handle money from clients which he said was one of the ways he would steal so as to get something worthy survival.
Kasasa told Kampala Sqoop that his family is divided with both his mother and father staying apart. My father stays in Masaka and my mother stays in Mbale.
He revealed that his dad survives on excavating sand for sale and the mother is also helpless in Mbale without any job or garden to dig.
According to Waggala, Kakasa’s saviour, Kakasa is one of the many children who suffer as a result of domestic violence and family disunion.
When asked, Kasasa said he fled home because of the torture he would always receive from his mother’s co wife whom his dad got years after breaking up with his mother.
He clearly stated that he cannot live at his father’s home since it’s a matter of life and death and rather stay in the street.
His step mother is one of the strong reasons Kasasa left home for the streets.
After Waggala’s deep discussion with him, Kasasa shocked Waggala when he recalled some of the subjects and lessons taught to him at his primary 4 class shortly after dropping out of school, he still remembers mountains, lakes and forests in Uganda.
It is for that reason therefore, Waggala got to the point of asking Kasasa if he would like to return back to school or not and to his surprise, Kasasa is motre than ready to go back to school “even if he is taken back to primary one,” he said.
Waggala called upon well- wishers, organisations to come to Kasasa’s rescue and help him finance his education so that he becomes a better person in life.
For more information about Kasasa, contact Isaac Waggala on mobile +256 789556711, 0754231271 or email: waggalaisaac@gmail.com
