A HUMANITARIAN who grew up in Dubbo has shocking and inspirational stories to tell when she returns to the city with a choir in tow.
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They include her adoption of a "miracle baby" found lying in her own waste in a cage in Uganda and the joy of giving underprivileged children in the country a future through education and self-sufficiency.
Trishelle Sayuuni (nee Grady), the founding director of 100% Hope, has brought the choir of Ugandan children and youth to Australia to perform for audiences and raise the $100,000 needed to expand Hope Christian College on land owned by the charity in Mityana, Uganda.
At 7pm on Saturday, June 4, the choir will take to the hall stage of Dubbo Christian School, Mrs Sayuuni's alma mater.
The choir will perform a mix of traditional and contemporary acapella singing, dancing and African rhythm drumming.
Entry is free to the public who will get the chance to make a donation during the concert.
The 100% Hope Uganda Children's Choir tour has already raised about $60,000.
Mrs Sayuuni, now a married mother of two, quit her teaching job on the Gold Coast and bought a one-way ticket to Uganda in 2012 after launching 100% Hope the year before.
"I had a dream in 2006 about this City of Hope where there were children in Africa playing and laughing inside a compound that had a school, children's homes, medical clinic, church and playground," she told the Daily Liberal.
"Basically, everything I am doing today is a result of that dream."
On the land owned by 100% Hope is a haven made up of the college, a church, homes for orphaned, abused and abandoned children, and a piggery partially funded by the Australian government.
"We support 106 children through our charity 100% Hope, between the age of 2 and 22," Mrs Sayuuni said.
"Our oldest who is 22 is George. He is in the choir and will be our first university entrant when he goes in August this year to study to become an art teacher."
Mrs Sayuuni's immediate and long-term goals are the same.
"We just want to continue helping as many children in Uganda as possible, continue building the school and ensuring that our children are getting quality education, love and care," she said.
For more information go to www.100-hope.org.
