Jay Dar Mur Sanza

Jay, joined Peter’s Heart in 2022 when we found him with his single widowed mother and a younger brother in a damp rented room. They had traveled to Kampala from the Nakivale refugee camp after running away from their home country Rwanda.  Jay’s mother had few choices for survival. 

After Peter’s Heart helped her with Jay getting in the local school, Peter’s Heart mentors reached out to her and has been looking for ways for her to support herself and her children that bring dignity. She has tried vending second hand clothes, but this has been hard for her because she doesn’t speak the local language.  The mentors will keep helping her in her pursuit of meaningful work.

Jay was excited to be enrolled in school and he did his best to catch up with his academic performance. He loves school and he rarely misses a single day. His performance has been fairly progressing, he is now in Primary 2 and he is involved in all the school activities.

It was discovered during his health exam that Jay had malaria.  Many people in the slums suffer from this because of the swampy conditions and lack of mosquito nets and adequate housing.  Once treated Jay recovered and has remained healthy for these past 2 years. 

His social life has been so good; he loves people and makes friends and is very good at dancing, a skill he uses to attract friends to himself.

Last year we had a small setback when he had developed a habit of running away from home and going to watch movies in the neighborhood movie halls. Usually, these halls are makeshift shacks where the owners target the young ignorant children who are rebellious to their parents. Most slum children get manipulated in these places. So Jean had started the habit of running from home after school and go to these halls to watch movies till late in the night. Thank God the team of Peter’s Heart Mentors worked together with his mother to counseling him and engaging the teachers at school to help him out of this habit.

Today he is one of the boys PHU is so proud of. He is gradually developing in his studies and his grades are so encouraging.  Last year he was among the best sports pupils in the school. And he has become popular because of his dancing antics and his engaging smile.