So that’s when I decided for my brother to get a cup of porridge,” Mutesi told CNN.Īlthough she was unfamiliar with the game, as is most of Uganda, Phiona worked hard, practicing every day for a year. “I was living a hard life, where I was sleeping on the streets, and you couldn’t have anything to eat in the streets. This was the program that would come to change Phiona’s life and turn her into “The Queen of Katwe”. Of his program, Katende has said that he had started it hoping to teach analytic and problem-solving skills that the children could apply to succeed in their own lives. The slum where Phiona lives is called Katwe, and it is located right in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, where veteran and refugee Robert Katende began a chess program for children, giving them food in return for completing a lesson. This was exactly the situation that teenager Phiona Mutesi found herself in when she started learning chess. There is little food to split between you and your family and you are a minority in your age group because you have regularly attended school before.
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