Season of Giving with Charles

Since it’s the Season of Giving, we're exploring generosity with our Cherish Family. By sharing stories about the spirit of giving from board members, staff, and students, we hope your heart can be flooded with warm memories of giving from your past and present. We’d love to hear who inspired you to be generous!

Discussion on Generosity

with Charles, a Cherish Computer Lab Student (now a graduate!)

(1) Who taught you to be generous?
Mr. Kenneth Katungisa taught me how to be generous. During the course of my high school, it reached a time when my parents could no longer pay my school dues. During my Form two second term holiday, there’s a richman’s home where I went to work(cut down a tree), I accomplished my work as instructed.

Mr. Katungisa paid me more than I expected. He went on to ask me about my family background and school, I narrated everything to him. Then, he told me to go back home and come back with my mum in the evening, I got scared because I did not know what was next. I came back to Mr. Katungisa’s home with my mum in the evening, they had a brief talk and we went back home.

The following day, my mum told me that Mr. Katungisa had decided to pay my school dues up to Form Four. I was excited and surprised about what God had done for me through Mr. Katungisa.

I had conversations with him and asked him why he chose to help me. He replied that giving helps him to gain blessings from God and it helps him to acquire more than he possesses.

I look up to him because he is an indicator that God uses better people to lift up others and to be a blessing to others through giving.

(2) Why do you choose to be generous?
I choose to be generous because it is all about treating people the way you would want to be treated. It's about wanting to give, if you can't give in the way you possibly know you should be giving. God cares about the motivation for giving.

(3) What’s the most meaningful gift you. have ever given or received?
I gave away my favorite Manchester United shirt.

(4) Do you have a favorite Christmas memory?
Spending some time with my besties at the beach near the Airport. My friends and I had taken quite a long time without seeing each other. We talked about real life experiences and what actually transpires in our lives. So, that day seemed to be a reunion between my friends and me, meanwhile I regard that day important in my life.