He died so young, just @ eight

Funeral Mass for Avitus Ainesaasi 30/9/2011

Children and staff of Rubanda Solidarity Nursery & Primary School  and the community of Rubanda are mourning the death of Avitus Ainesaasi.

Ainesaasi died on 28/9/2011 at the age of eight years at Rugarama hospital in Kabale.

Prial to his death, Avitus spent the whole day at school learning and playing normally without signs of healthy discomforts.

In the evening, as usual, Avitus joined other kids to the assembly and as the school closed he joined his friends, brother and sister going home.

After dinner, he joined his brothers and sisters to play and later went to sleep.Early in the morning as it was his habit, Avitus did not wake up raising fears among his parents who went to check on him. To their dismay, they found he was in bad shape and only fit for hospital emergency. With the nearest hospital at a distance of more that 20 kilometers away and with none existent ambulances, he was rushed to a nearby Rubanda healthy center who found that his health condition had deteriorated and referred him to Kabale hospital where he died shortly after arriving. The  cause of his death is not yet known with certainty.


More than the staff, his fellow children miss him a lot. However, they have been  assured and consoled by Rev.Dominic Tumusiime, the founder of the school, that at the tender age Ainesaasi has met his death, blameless as he was, has gone to God in heaven as the first saint from the school and is praying for all of us.

Ainesaasi, your family, your sponsor, our school and the whole community of Rubanda will  miss your smiles and love. However, as we all feel the pitch of the deep hole you have left behind, your death at that tender age is your blameless journey to behold the eternal life.

We will miss you but hope to see you once again when our time comes.

Good bye.

Rest in Eternal Peace.