Junior, a Rock university scholarship student tells his story. He lost his dad, mom and triplet siblings to AIDS. “I was brought up by my mum and dad until I was two years old. Then my dad passed away of AIDS, so I don’t remember having a glance of my dad’s face. Then my mummy also passed away when I was four years old. At least I remember having a glance of her face."

Some relatives treated him harshly until a kind aunt looked after him and his brother and treated them as her sons. "Surely life was moving on smoothly, but sad enough AIDS was so rampant, she also passed away of AIDS in 1998. We had to stay lonely, struggling with life, suffering terribly, felt sick for weeks and weeks, stopped studying and stayed without eating for nights until we joined the Boys’ Brigade and learned how to play instruments." The Brigade, a Rock Uganda ministry partner, helps care for the boys and pay school fees with money earned from band perfomances.

After joining the Brigade a secondary school recruited him to play football and paid Junior's fees to complete "O" level. Through the years he had a reputation of being a great "footballer." To Junior his life has been full of miracles: he didn't die at birth, he completed school and now is in university studying for a career in business. He expresses it this way, "Now I one day sat down, and asked myself that is it me who has completed Secondary Level? I surely looked blessed by the Spirit of the Almighty. From there I decided to take God as the first priority before anything else.”

This year Junior begins his second year as a student in business administration at Makerere University Business School Kampala, Uganda and plans to become an accountant. In his spare time he continues to be a part of the Brigade leadership team along with selling his artwork and making jewelry.