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2010 ChildrenUP Student
Oryem Patrick

2010 Meeting Oryem Patrick

Oryem Patrick has creatively problem-solved a way to improve his studies. He has asked older students to assist him. Great idea Oryem!
[See more about Patrick in our UP Beat story!]

2011 UPdate on Oryem Patrick

I am under no illusions that I understand Patrick's home life. He lives in challenging conditions. The hut he lives in at home is in bad repair. The thatch on the roof does not keep the rains away. This makes life difficult in terms of living and keeping school supplies dry when he is on school breaks. There are other family members involved, though he has no mother or father. When we saw him at his homestead this January, he appeared tense.

At school Oryem not only has done well since the start of secondary school, but as the year progressed his class rank has shot up dramatically! He is now twelfth out of a class of 287 students. He said that living at school has given him “an appetite for learning”.

He has taken advantage of the opportunity of an education to free himself from his past. When asked what he hoped would happen as a result of getting an education, he answered that he wanted to free his younger brothers from the life they had in the village.