{"id":18824,"date":"2021-07-22T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=18824"},"modified":"2021-07-22T13:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T10:15:53","slug":"former-ugandan-child-soldier-becomes-cardiologist-finds-love-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=18824","title":{"rendered":"Former Ugandan child soldier becomes cardiologist, finds love in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rashim Nabanja<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Odonga Bosco, a Ugandan Cardiologist in Russia recently tied the knot with Russian girlfriend. Odonga was a child soldier rescued by a Russian volunteer in 2004.\u00a0 He was taken to live and study in Russia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">??We are happy to learn that Mr. Odonga Bosco <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/odonga2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@odonga2<\/a>, who was once a child soldier from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Uganda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Uganda<\/a>, got married in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Russia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Russia<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>In 2004 he was rescued by a Russian volunteer &amp; eventually came to live &amp; study in our country, where he became a certified cardiologist. Congratulations! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mMXV71b55l\">pic.twitter.com\/mMXV71b55l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Russian Embassy in Uganda ?? (@RusEmbUganda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RusEmbUganda\/status\/1417900095853498374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The news of Odonga\u2019s marriage was shared by the Russian Embassy in Uganda through their Twitter handle and various people had beautiful messages for the lucky man.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/E61kmpDXIAQMSGP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/E61kmpDXIAQMSGP.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/E61kmpDXIAQMSGP-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr Ayume Charles wrote;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongrats Dr. Odonga. You defied all odds and your story is a best seller. Visit motherland once in a while and inspire some of the youth who have no hope; and try and look up your cohort who were not fortunate enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cong&#8217;s its an inspirational story<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nyamata Lydia (@nyamata_lydia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyamata_lydia\/status\/1418121813062787073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Many were also suggesting that Odonga\u2019s story should be ran by big media networks in order to inspire former child soldiers or even current child soldiers out there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My wedding wishes the new couple the best in their new journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rashim Nabanja Odonga Bosco, a Ugandan Cardiologist in Russia recently tied the knot with Russian girlfriend. Odonga was a child soldier rescued by a Russian volunteer in 2004.\u00a0 He was taken to live and study in Russia. ??We are happy to learn that Mr. Odonga Bosco @odonga2, who was once a child soldier from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1784],"class_list":["post-18824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-stories"],"authors":[{"term_id":1784,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"weddingadmin","display_name":"weddingadmin","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd3996c46efafdc40969010bfd78c8e4dda9d99318e7dd6403983ea0dadbcfce?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18831,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18824\/revisions\/18831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18824"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=18824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}