John Ssentonga has, like many of the Tigers lads, shown              great determination despite a difficult start in life.

Following the death of his father, his mother remarried and her new husband threw him out at the age of 13.  That was in 1997.  He was well known at the football stadium, in the heart of town, so convinced a Coca Cola kiosk owner to allow him to sleep there, which he did - for two and a half years. 

Fellow football loving street kids introduced him to Tigers Club where he was accepted on to the S.T.A.R.T programme.  He studied Electrical Installation and has impressed potential employers throughout his industrial training.  

Recently he gained his first contract with a company in Entebbe, 25 miles from Kampala, where he has found accomodation and is settling well into his new job.