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According to Premo, the The widow’s immense are so willing to give when HAMPTON | When Sarah sion trips when she was a ing widows and orphans in kids in the settlement worked gratitude was evident. “She they have nothing.” Premo stepped off a plane young adult. During visits to distress. together to survive under the cooked me this amazing Right now, Premo is nearly 7000 miles from her Brazil and Latvia, where she In January 2006, during supervision of only one adult. Ugandan meal in the middle brushing up on her nursing Seacoast hometown this past had the opportunity to work her first visit, Premo traveled She said she was able to pro- of the jungle,” Premo said. “It expertise at New Hampshire January, she knew her return with orphans, Premo realized to Uganda with a friend she vide the youngsters with goats was mind-blowing.” Community Technical College to Africa was meant to be. such service could play a larg- had met at a mission school to start a livestock project. In addition to a new home, in Stratham. She also works “I feel like Uganda is my er role in her life. in Texas. She called her return During her first trip, Premo Premo was able to provide as a nanny, serves as a Sun- home,” said the 25-year-old “Pretty much my whole trip this past January her “own learned of a mother of three blankets and money to fund day school teacher and has Hampton native and Win- goal in life is [caring for] personal spiritual journey.” whose home was destroyed in the children’s educations for volunteered at Opportunity nacunnet High School gradu- orphans,” said Premo. “It’s Premo’s experiences in a fire after her husband died of one year. In return, the family Works, a service organization ate. “I miss [being] there so almost like it was an inborn Africa have been life-chang- AIDS. Premo said she decided gave her a chicken, goat and for people with developmen- much … it brings joy to my thing in me.” A devoted ing.