Am Zziwa Richard (stage name Richie Zion) who was born in the surburbs of Namungoona Kampala. 
I grew up with my father and step mother whereby almost all my life was full of torture and harassment from my step mother. At 18, I completed my senior six I was officially chased away from home and I didn't have where to go by that moment. I started staying at a friends home where they got fed up of after awhile because I could not buy anything in the house so I became expensive to them. From there, a friend told me about South Sudan that there are jobs and before I went, I had a girlfriend called Christina who always helped me so I left her behind and went to work in Sudan. I got a job there and started working sending all the money to my girlfriend back in Uganda and after awhile, wars started in Sudan and was forced to come back home where I found that Christina was in love with another man and were always using the money I sent so that meant that I didn't have anything literally be it a wife or money. 
I seriously got confused started taking alcohol and smoking cigarette to relax my mind and forget all my problems. Time passed on and the little money I had got finished , rent became a problem forcing the landlord to chase me from the house so the only option was joining the street kids. I went to a place called Mengo Kijjambiya where most of the ghettos youths were staying. I joined them started staying there and always slept there. I learnt what they do like taking drugs like smoking marijuana, chewing Mira, taking heroine, and many other local drugs. I learnt boxing which is one most used keys in ghetto because we only survived on stealing people's things. I started moving out at night with them where to steal which is the only way to survive . I learnt pick pocketing, stealing phones, laptops among others and I became so professional and famous so was given a name ' WRONG NUMBER' because of the new skills I had brought on the streets. My name became so famous that I joined the most top gangsters in Kampala. We did a lot of dirty work and harm to innocent souls. 
In 2016, that was a presidential year and the same year that the catholic pope was coming to Uganda, security was so tight and my name was pinned at every police station as the most wanted. I was a Rasta man with dreadlocks where the police knew my name but didn't know the exact person they were looking for. On every Saturday evening, we used to steal from Oasis mall- Nakumat supermarket where many thugs groups used to gather and steal from there. I was group leader of the group that was from Kijjambiya Mengo. The word Kijjambiya means a panga. 
One day, one of the boys called Fredo from another group of Nansana Kibuloka stole a phone and I happened to see him yet it was a policy that we share what you have stolen with the person that have seen you stealing. Fredo gave me a memory card which had many songs on it, I inserted it in my phone and started listening to them because I was wanted every where so I hardly moved out. On that memory card which had many songs was a song called Oli Katonda by Pastor Justine Nabbosa. In this song there is a statement which says that I will tell my children and they also call you God. These words always haunted me and I always asked myself a constant question that WHAT WILL YOU TELL YOUR CHILDREN? The more and more this question came to me, I also heard another voice telling me to go to church. I went to Church-The Worship House by Pastor Wilson Bugembe who is also a former street kid and gave my life to Jesus Christ and ever since then that voice I heard telling me to go to church has always guided me. The voice told me to go back to where I came from ( ghetto) and preach Christ to them such that they also receive what I received through an outreach called Ghetto Church Tubonge which means connecting the Ghetto to the Church. And since then, many ghetto youths gave their lives to Christ but with no shelter, accommodation, food, medical care among others and, this is where the ministry Gospel Arise In Slums Ministries ( GASM ) came from. The outreach Ghetto Church Tubonge happens annually in different ghettos. We now reside in Nansana Kyebando.