Medi Bugembe is founder and Director of Great Kings and Queens Children’s Centre, located in Ndejji Uganda. He ran away from home at age 5 because his stepmother treated him cruelly and beat him, and he ended up living as a street child in the Katwe slums near Kampala for 5 years. Victoria Nalongo Namusisi, Director of Bright Kids Uganda, found Medi and rescued him. When he graduated from college he became a teacher and founded a home for children from the Katwe Slums.

Over the years, ASA has helped provide support to Medi and his school in the following ways:

• Built trenches to prevent the flooding of classrooms
• Built latrines built after the old ones caved in
• Through the Maxine Bruhns Fund, helped fund scholarships for 4 children rescued from Katwe Slum
• Built a new front gate
• Raised funds for a down payment that will help Medi eventually own the land on which his school now stands.
• Provided funds to pay the bookkeeper’s salary for 3 years