Blind but not broken: Widow battles darkness to raise orphans

9th May 2025

Nabutono crouches near the fireplace in her home with a toddler strapped to her back, with tears trickling down the little one’s face from hunger.

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Cataracts robbed Nabutono of sight completely, just like it had done to her late husband, who battled a three-year illness before passing in 2018.

Tom Gwebayanga

Journalist @New Vision

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BUYENDE - In the heart of Buyende district, along the dusty stretch of Bugaya– Igwaya road, stands a crumbling two-roomed house in Nabbuku-Ngole village.

It is here, surrounded by

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Blind but not broken: Widow battles darkness to raise orphans

Nabutono crouches near the fireplace in her home with a toddler strapped to her back, with tears trickling down the little one’s face from hunger.

Cataracts robbed Nabutono of sight completely, just like it had done to her late husband, who battled a three-year illness before passing in 2018.

Tom Gwebayanga

Journalist @New Vision

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