One would say, hard work, tenacity or determination but for Adison Asiimwe, it is God’s grace and blessing that  got him where he is today.
 Asiimwe, a data entrant and casual worker at UCU, will be graduating on July 9, with a testimony of the Lord’s goodness on his lips.

The first born of four says, when he lost his parents to Aids, everyone around them rejected them because they thought they were HIV positive.
Later, when the last born of the family died, the situation worsened. They could barely live and so Asiimwe took a bold step to find help for his siblings.
“In Primary seven, I decided to walk away from home and look for a job,” he says. Someone had called him to work as a house boy.
 However, before he took on the job, he decided to try his last hope, his uncle. Fortunately, he was able to see him through secondary school.
Although Asiimwe had someone to help him, his siblings were still struggling. One of his little sisters left school when her uncle stopped paying school fees and got married.
In senior six vacation, Asiimwe moved to his cousin’s home in Kampala to find a job.  He got a job at a hotel as a waiter and was in position to do a certificate in Public Administration at Makerere University.
 He later started volunteering at All Saints, ministering in Prisons and Orphanages. It was while doing the Lord’s work that someone told him of a Vacancy at The Cottages Company.
“I applied for the job and I was successful,” he says. With this job, Adison enrolled for a Diploma in Business Administration at Makerere Business Institute.
He went to Bushenyi and picked up his little sister before she could also be married off because of lack of fees.
He left his cousin’s home and rented a place in one of the basements of Buganda road flats.
“I saved some money and took my sister to Kitante school and later to Makerere Highway College,” he says.
After a year, Adison was appointed as Supervisor at his work place. He applied for a degree in Social works and Social administration at UCU.
  At this time, his uncle stopped paying fees for Asiimwe’s young brother. Asiimwe took him on and got him in school.
“I would wake up every day and wonder what I would feed my siblings on or where money for transport to school for the three of us would come from,” he says.  Sometimes he would fail to get transport to UCU to study or fail to make it in time for lectures.
He left the job in 2009 and applied for casual work at UCU. He moved to a house in Mukono, closer to the University.
“God provided for me and my siblings miraculously and I know that for all the services I have given to God and people, there’s been a reward,” he says.
To people from humble backgrounds, Asiimwe has this to say; when you believe in God and work hard, you can achieve all things and succeed in life.
I have nothing to give back to UCU but to say thank you and that I will serve this community, says the 29 year old.