Mission Moroto Stories – Angel Gabriel Ilukol
I am Angel Gabriel Ilukol from Kaabong District. The story from my mother is that when she was pregnant with me there was no sign of pregnancy. Her stomach was perfectly flat unlike my brothers and sisters when her stomach was very big.
She felt sick and was admitted to the hospital. She grew thin and when the nurses were massaging her stomach they said she had a stomach disease. Later, they realized she was pregnant and they told her that she was going to die or the baby was going to die. By God’s grace I was born and we both lived.
Later, as I grew I felt sick and was admitted to the hospital. My body didn’t have enough blood. They went to all my family but my body rejected all of their blood.The brother of my father was also admitted to the hospital and sacrificed his blood for me. It was a match and I was healed.
Thereafter at home we went to collect Tamarind fruit. I would climb up to the very tips and get the fruit. I was sitting on the highest branch and there was a large stone below and I fell. I was saved by God. Two weeks later, we walked 4 kilometers to a river to fetch water. We were attracted to a fig tree full of fruit down by a pool in the river. 5 of us went down to get the fruit. I climbed up into the tree and began throwing down fruit. Suddenly, a crocodile came up from the pool and shook the tree and I fell but I caught my self on the lowest branch by my right hand. The tree was shaking and I was growing tired of holding on. The water was boiling and went from white to green and then the tree stopped shaking and I was able to grab on with my legs and jump to the river bank.
Thereafter, they took me to herd goats but my heart wasn’t happy as I saw others going to boarding school. I forced myself to go to boarding school and my eldest brother hated me for it and told me not to come back home. It was 2008 when I joined school. The teachers loved me as I was working hard to please them. Even holidays the teachers traded taking me home to stay at their house. I finished my secondary school in 2014 and managed to get 19 aggregates Div II.
I felt again sick with a disease I don’t know what up to now. I kept coughing up blood and was admitted to the hospital and I got healed. A certain soldier wanted to sponsor me but my father refused. He said he already had a sponsor for me from Moroto. I came to Moroto in 2015 and my new sponsor was a white lady named Gabby. She disappeared with my paperwork. I sat at home for 2 years. In 2016 I met Pastor Noah and he told me to come to Rupa. I came and got to meet Bill (now in heaven). Bill was sick so he couldn’t take me in. Noah and Simon told me to go work that land at home and they would work on a way forward for me. In 2017 Noah told me to go join Joseph Longoli and John in school at primary 7 where I managed to get 16 aggregates. Then we joined Nadunget Senior Secondary School in 2018 up to now. That’s why I give thanks and glory to God for the wonderful life He has given me and delivered me from all those former troubles. Thank you, Angel Gabriel Ilukol.
