Books, Pens and Possibility: Gilbert Kevin's Gift to Divine Mercy School, Fort Portal
In the hills around Fort Portal, in western Uganda, the school day begins the way it does in classrooms everywhere: small hands reaching for pencils, young eyes searching the wall for something worth learning. Yet for many rural schools, the basic tools of that ritual are never guaranteed. A notebook can be a luxury. A pen may be shared between several children. A classroom chart that turns the alphabet or a multiplication table into something vivid may be missing altogether. On 19 March 2026, at Divine Mercy Nursery and Primary School in Kiko, that gap narrowed. Schoolbooks, pens and teaching charts arrived as a gift from Gilbert Kevin Jimmy Kwizera , a Ugandan-born humanitarian leader and international consultant whose name is usually associated with a very different cause: caring for cancer patients. A Gift Without Ceremony Mr. Kwizera did not travel to Kiko for the occasion. He is based in the United Arab Emirates, where he oversees humanitarian projects that span borders, and the ...