I am Nakiyimba Phiona 16 years old , a Catholic by religion. I am a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Kyeyune Edward the chairman LC11 Nakaseke Lufula zone
in Nakaseke Town Council .My mother sells clothes in order to earn a living. I
am the third born in the family, I have other six siblings namely Kenneth,
Derrick Angel, Vanessa and Jonah is the last born aged 8 years.
I go to Mazzoldi College School in Nakaseke and I am
in form three. My ambition in life is to study hard and become a midwife to help
mothers when giving life. It is also my desire to be a computer wizard too. However,
I am always discouraged by my parents! They really wish me the best in life but
due to lack of enough financial support they always tell me that they won’t be
able to support me in that career! I really want to study had in order to change
my family financial background.
Recently in the month of March, 2020, during the national
presidential address on covid-19 he announced the closer of all schools,
churches, and shops. However, essential services like banks, hospitals, radios
and TVs were left open.
I am blessed to live in an area which has a
library, this community library it not so much far away from my home. During
the first two months of the lock down I used to help my parents in the farm.
However, this kind of work was boring without any reading. I decided to visit
the library to find out if it was open and borrow some books to read from home
and use the computers. Lucky enough, I found it open and I was warmly received
by the librarian.
I asked my parents to always allow me to visit the
library hmmm! My father was negative about my idea that I will get COVID from
there. However my mother was on my side that’s when I started visiting the
library. The library has text books, newspapers, novels, computers, internet
and many more things you can think of which enables one to study.
I really loved to learn how to use a computer, I was
enrolled and I study with other children; Babirye Jane and Nakato Joweria. We
have learnt: power point, Microsoft word, picture editing I can use the
internet to learn online.
I now feel happy because my time during covid-19 is
not wasted I also do encourage other parents to allow their children to visit
the library. However, children have to take precautions of covid-19 that’s to
say, wear masks, observe social distancing and regularly wash their hands
before they enter the library. For sure, the library has greatly changed my
life!
