2012 CNN HEROTwesigye Jackson Kaguri was born and raised in Uganda in the small village of Nyakagyezi. At a very young age he demonstrated an unquenchable desire to learn, which led him to study at and graduate from Makerere University in Kampala and attended Columbia University in NYC as a visiting scholar. He founded Nyaka project www.nyakaschool.org in 2001.Since founding this project, Kaguri has also become an author. In "A School for My Village" he shares how he came to build the first school and the struggles he faced during the first few years. In 2012, he resigned as Interim Senior Director of Development in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University to focus full-time on The Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project. Kaguri has been named a Heifer International Hero, recognized in Time Magazine's 'Power of One' Series, and spoken to the UN about his work. IN 2012, he was selected as a CNN Hero!