Friday 27th October 2017 saw over 1,000 students conferred upon their respective degrees at Uganda Christian University’s 18th graduation ceremony.
Among the thousands that received their honours was Esther Priscilla, a mother of one who graduated with a Bachelor’s in Mass Communication at the Mukono based university.
Esther’s story goes back in the day when a lot was being said as she got pregnant in her third year and conceived a baby boy, a few weeks to her final examination. She, however, says this did not deter her and neither did she let it determine her future as she took it upon herself not to make another mistake.
“I got the courage to carry the pregnancy for nine months. Despite the morning sickness, body weakness, name it all that comes ones way while pregnant,” Esther, in a popular Facebook group, Mama Tendo said.
It was not all fruit and fibre carrying the pregnancy for all the 9 months as a lot was being said among her classmates but Esther made a promise to her self that she will reach the shore despite all that was happening at the time.
Esther says she continued to attend all her lectures and luckily for her, the week of her final exams fell when her boy was already a week and a half into this world.
“I attended all my lectures and sat for my final exams when my boy was just one week and a half into this world.”
The fresh graduate says she used to sit in the examination room with “half her heart” beating for her 7-days-old baby boy whom she always left with a friend just outside the room. “In case he cried, it would be easy for me to get out and feed him,” she revealed. To her surprise however, the boy would sleep all through the three hours, the standard time of all examination papers at the university.
Esther thanked her parents who she preferred to keep anonymous, for not only seeing her through school but also never giving up on her like the world had thought.
“Help me thank my parents for never giving up on me, there is no single day I was made to feel that I had made the wrong decision. Glory and honor back to God who saw me through all this journey.”
Congratulations woman of valour.
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