Bena Nakijoba, fondly and respectfully called Jaja ba all - is seventy two years old. Very few life stories are as touching, as moving and as dramatic as Jaja's. She went to school up to the 6th grade; she got married at age fifteen; she was barren, could not conceive and so her husband broke-up with her; she then got a job looking after children of expatriates; and after three years looking after the children, she left and moved to Katanga, Kampala in 1971. In 1971, Katanga was small and had very few people; but through the years it has grown up too fast, become over-populated and is one of the worst slums in East Africa. For the last forty or so years, Jaja has been opening her doors in Katanga and her heart to abandoned children and caring for them. At first, it was those of working parents who would live their children with her, for a little pay, while they worked. Then, in the early 1980s - with war raging around Uganda, people, mainly young girls who mistakenly got pregnant, started abandoning their children to her.Until 2010But, in 2011 - all that changed. Contrary to what some people, even reporters, are saying, that a church or some missionaries, are the ones who changed Jaja's life - it is not so.As they say - the rest is history. And what a very dramatic and moving history it is. And what an incredible hero Jaja is. I wonder why she has not become a CNN Hero.were presented to the world two nights ago. Jaja should have been there. Or been there even earlier. How many of us can be as giving, as considerate, as compassionate and as caring as Jaja? How many of us can be such a hero? As it is very easy to manipulate, to misuse and to be corrupted by what Jaja has now; and as Jaja is too old now - very hopefully, those managing Live It Up will be as considerate, as compassionate and as caring to her children as Jaja is. Always.