KATIE DAVIS

HISTORY

• Katie Davis lived in Brentwood, Tennessee
• Katie was 18 when she first traveled to Uganda

UGANDA

• When Katie first went to Uganda, she was shocked at the amount
• of children sitting by the side of the road or working in the fields
• She started teaching kindergarten at an orphanage in 2007
• When she was teaching kindergarten, she started noticing her
• students were dropping out because they couldnt afford to go to school

UGANDA

• After seeing the amount of children dropping out, Katie decided to start an organization.
• The organization she started is called Amazima

ORGANIZATIONS

• Katie's first organization that she started is called the Masese Feed Outreach
• The Masese Feed Outreach provides food for people who are in desperate need for food
• She also started the organization called Amazima
• Amazima is a non-profit organization that pays for children to go to school.
• The way they do this is by donations from sponsors. $300 is how much it costs to send a child to school.

CHILDREN

• Katie Davis has adopted 13 orphaned girls in Uganda
• One of her daughter's, Agnes, was rescued from a AIDS shelter that had collapsed in the night
• Her youngest daughter, Patricia, was given to her by an HIV-positive mother who already had 11 children
• All of her daughter's have either been abused or abandoned.

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