In 2001, Jackson Kaguri—having left for the United States to continue his education—returns to visit his family in Uganda with his new bride. Having lost two siblings to HIV / AIDS—and as the guardian of one brother’s children—Jackson is especially moved by the plight of the thousands of AIDS orphans in his local district. Impulsively, he and his wife Beronda vow to open the first tuition-free school for these orphans, despite the opposition of a domineering father, the difficulty of procuring supplies in rural Uganda and the corruption of local officials. With the help of a multitude of supporters in America and the sustenance of their religious conviction, Jackson and Beronda doggedly build a school, one room at a time. The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village is the story of the building of this extraordinary school and the astonishing effort by one man to raise an entire community out of poverty and hopelessness.