25 December 2011
Daily Gazette ~ A BOTTLE of whisky signed by Britain’s three biggest political leaders has raised more than £400 for a school’s charity fund. Pupils at Colchester County High School for Girls are trying to raise £10,000 to build a school for orphans in Uganda. After hearing about the appeal Colchester MP Bob Russell bought a bottle [...]
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10 October 2011
Two postgraduate students from Queen’s University, Belfast, have completed the first phase of a pioneering trip to assist in the treatment of psychological distress among child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Paul O’Callaghan and John McMullen spent the summer months in the heart of the vast African country providing psychological support and treatment [...]
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10 October 2011
By Ijuka Agnes Barongo and Jeremy Green ~ KAMPALA, Uganda ~ Emmanuel, 17, from Masindi District, Uganda, sits contemplatively near a window, with an expression of quiet determination on his face. Bathed in the golden light spilling forth through the pane, his academic journey thus far has been anything but sunny. As he discussed the [...]
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12 September 2011
On her first night in the land that would become her new home, Carol Higgins wrapped herself in a mosquito net and cried. A rain that would pound the earth for months was pouring down, turning dirt to gooey mud. The house had no toilet; instead, Carol had to make the trek to an outhouse. [...]
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25 August 2011
By Audrie Palmer, Midland Reporter-Telegram ~ For the last 11 years, Midland Habitat for Humanity has partnered with a sister office in Africa, and on Tuesday, volunteers and staff got to meet one of the representatives from the Uganda branch. Habitat Uganda’s resource development and communications director, Ronald Kiconco Ongopa, spoke at a luncheon about [...]
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18 August 2011
BY CHRISTINA TOTH, THE TIMES | Tuning into Uganda’s needs ~ Luthier combines wood from B.C. & Africa to help make life better for impoverished nation. The light sweet strains of the DuncanAfrica guitar lift off its hardwood body and float above the chatter at the House of James coffee shop in Abbotsford. Jay Duncan [...]
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16 August 2011
By Hugh Rist | For the News & Messenger ~ At a time of economic uncertainty in America, it took a humanitarian trip to Uganda to show Woodbridge senior volleyball player Erin Morrissey how truly rich she is. When a family friend, Dr. Buzz Auvil came for a visit and shared a photo album of [...]
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14 August 2011
By Vicky Angear ~ Round-the-world mercy mission | A CARING couple from Nailsea are giving up their lives in England to travel round the world helping people in need. Mark Walters, aged 22, has quit his job as a senior keeper for reptiles and birds at Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm, and his wife Megan, aged [...]
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09 August 2011
Water For People’s Chief Executive Officer to Climb Mt. Stanley in Uganda to Raise Awareness for Water and Sanitation Development and Sustainability. The Climb will Launch Water For People’s Everyone Campaign Denver, CO (PRWEB) ~ On August 16, Water For People’s Chief Executive Officer Ned Breslin will begin a 16,763-foot trekup Mt. Stanley in Uganda, Africa, in connection [...]
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09 August 2011
By Neil Corbett – Abbotsford News, CANADA ~ An Abbotsford educator recently left for Uganda, where she will teach former child soldiers and children who have been orphaned by war. Amy Schmidt was already in Uganda last July for six weeks, working with the Lighthouse Primary School, a facility run by the Uganda Jesus Village. [...]
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07 August 2011
By Michael Kirkpatrick ~ “A School For My Village” is an inspiring story of how one person can really make a difference in the world. Jackson Kaguri overcame tremendous odds to help the orphans in his village in Uganda. The book is his unforgettable story. Kaguri grew up on his family’s small farm in rural [...]
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05 August 2011
By Christina Macone-Greene, SAN DIEGO ~ When 15-year-old Catherine Mitchell flew to Uganda for a family trip a couple of years ago she witnessed poverty and sickness. A Guajome Park Academy student from Vista, Catherine tossed aside the notion she was too young to lend a hand. In fall 2009, she established her micro-business, Beauty [...]
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28 July 2011
By Hibe Kalfan, TAF ~ Over the past few weeks an emergency has unfolded on the Horn of Africa. Facing the worst drought in over 60 years, the people of Somalia are experiencing massive crop and livestock failures, rapidly diminishing access to drinking water and the chaos associated with internal displacement and civil strife. The [...]
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26 July 2011
By BONNIE ALLEN, NPR ~ Four years ago, Katie Davis was homecoming queen at her high school in Brentwood, Tenn. She had a yellow convertible and planned to study nursing in college. But those plans changed just a little. Today, she’s in Uganda, sharing her home with 13 orphaned or abandoned girls, ages 2 to [...]
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24 July 2011
By JADE MINGUS / KVUE News ~ A nine-month-old baby has a new lease on life, thanks to the generous work of an Austin non-profit group. The baby, named Fortune, and his mother, Sylvia Nalwejje, traveled 10,000 miles from Uganda for a life-saving heart surgery. The HeartGift Foundation arranged for Fortune to travel to Texas [...]
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24 July 2011
By CINDY HOEDEL, The Kansas City Star ~ Photographer Gloria Baker Feinstein of Kansas City founded Change the Truth, a nonprofit organization benefiting the St. Mary Kevin Orphanage outside Kajjansi, Uganda, in 2006. This conversation took place at Feinstein’s dining room table, where she showed a portfolio of her photographs of the orphans. What does [...]
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03 July 2011
By Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press ~ In many ways, Montreal-born surgeon Lucille Teasdale is to Africa what Norman Bethune is to China, yet she is hardly a household name in Canada. Teasdale moved to Uganda in 1961, married an Italian doctor and created what has turned out to be a thriving East African teaching [...]
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03 July 2011
By Mike Brownlee ~ After working as a social worker in Omaha, Ryan Youtz headed where most twentysomethings looking for a change go: Africa. Kampala, Uganda, to be exact. Youtz, 26, is the program coordinator for Ravens Ministries, which offers programs helping young adults and others in Kampala, the country’s capitol and home to about [...]
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26 June 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja ~ The Watoto Children’s Choir, founded by Pastors Gary and Marilyn Skinner of Kampala Pentecostal Church [KPC] now Watoto Church, made a stop over in Stoughton, Massachusetts in what was a colorful concert at Bishop G.A Thompson’s Jubilee Christian Church International. The group performance included a fusion of unique native African rhythms, [...]
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24 June 2011
KAMPALA, UGANDA ~ Bobi Wine joined hands yesterday with MTN Uganda staff led by Chief Executive Officer Themba Khumalo, to clean up Mulago, Kyebando and Kamwokya areas as part of the ’21 Days of Y’ello Care’. Exciting thousands of area residents, Bobi Wine dressed up in a yellow MTN t-shirt and took up a hoe [...]
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21 June 2011
By Ebonne Ruffins, Atlanta (CNN) — That bar of soap you used once or twice during your last hotel stay might now be helping poor children fight disease. Derreck Kayongo and his Atlanta-based Global Soap Project collect used hotel soap from across the United States. Instead of ending up in landfills, the soaps are cleaned [...]
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19 June 2011
The Watoto Children’s Choir gave a colorful performance of music and dance on April 7 at Mount Fern United Methodist Church in Randolph. The choir, based at Watoto Church in Kampala, Uganda, comprises mostly Ugandan children who have lost one or both parents to war or to the AIDS epidemic. The choir has toured internationally [...]
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25 May 2011
SELINSGROVE — At the urging of a Messiah College student, three of the Selinsgrove-area residents injured in the July terrorist attack in Uganda will return to that African country next month. “I kept encouraging them to go back,” said Kris Sledge, who suffered eye, ear and leg injuries July 11 when a bomb exploded in a [...]
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19 May 2011
BOULDER – Walking back on the University of Colorado campus after being gone for three years was a culture shock that 23-year-old Andrea Pauline did not anticipate. The sight of Ray-Ban sunglasses and skinny jeans actually caught her off-guard. “Things that I haven’t cared about in the last three years are coming back. And it’s [...]
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11 May 2011
By Colleen O’Connor | Denver Post | After spending three weeks in Denver, 20-month-old Deborah Kisakye is returning to her home in Uganda with the gift of new life. “It’s a miracle,” her mother, Mariam Luyima, said through a translator. The youngest of four children, Deborah was born prematurely with a hole in her heart. A [...]
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06 May 2011
By DAN MACSAI | Gulu | A network of rock stars fuels the Voice Project and benefits the women of Uganda. Can viral videos help save war-torn Africa? That’s the question driving the Voice Project, a New York-based not-for-profit that aims to raise awareness for Ugandan women’s groups — by tapping into our shared love [...]
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05 May 2011
Burlington, Vermont | WCAX News | A Vermont doctor is making a difference half a world away. Worldwide a woman dies every minute from complications associated with pregnancy and labor. Dr. Kristen DeStigter is a radiologist at Fletcher Allen and the University of Vermont. She co-founded a nonprofit called “Imaging the World.” The goal is [...]
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05 May 2011
VERNON – Roadies from the Invisible Children Organization hosted two assemblies at Vernon Township High School as part of their mission to heighten awareness of the tragedy of the children kidnapped in Uganda, and now the Congo, and forced to become soldiers by the Lords Resistance Army. Two auditoriums full of students were totally silent [...]
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03 May 2011
A TEENAGE GIRL from Uganda ‘shrieked with joy’ when she was given a new bike by a Hailsham charity. Tabitha Namataka aged 16, from Kabubbu in Uganda, was given the bicycle by The Quicken Trust with Southern Water. “It will be so good” she said, “now I can spend more time at school working on [...]
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03 May 2011
KANSAS CITY, Mo. | Christian Newswire | The Global Orphan Project (GO Project) announces the Tour d’Uganda, 2012! Next January 7th through the 17th, twenty-one riders will bike more than 250 miles across the beautiful country of Uganda. Along the way, the Tour will stop at three GO Project-partner villages caring for orphaned and abandoned [...]
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17 April 2011
By LAURA CUMMINGS | Scotland | A GROUP of orphans from Uganda are set to perform a concert in the Capital after being sponsored for the trip by a new city church. More than 30 members of the Watoto Children’s Choir – adults and children – will sing, dance and act as part of the [...]
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15 April 2011
PROS FOR AFRICA (“PFA“) is an international, non-profit relief organization headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Through invaluable partnerships with professional athletes, business professionals and other organizations, PFA provides food, water, clothing, medicine and other necessities to disadvantaged children of war, poverty and natural disaster. PROS FOR AFRICA was founded in 2009 to focus on African [...]
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13 April 2011
By Herb Woerpel | MLIVE | If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead, and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of this world. Living in Uganda, Ryan Kaminski experiences this reality every day, firsthand. While studying at Grand Valley State University, Kaminski, a class [...]
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11 April 2011
By Emily Wither | CNN | In northern Uganda, Sarah Omollo, like hundreds of other women, rises early each day to collect shea nuts. Omollo, who is now in her thirties, has been gathering the nuts since she was a young child, crushing them up and using the oil they produce for things like cooking [...]
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09 April 2011
PLAINSBORO — On April 11, Invisible Children, a media-based nonprofit dedicated to ending Africa’s longest-running war, will be screening “Tony” at West Windsor Plainsboro High School. Invisible Children exists to raise awareness about children who are abducted and forced to fight as soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group currently terrorizing central east [...]
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09 April 2011
By Richard K. Thomas, Special to My Life | Uganda, in East Africa, is a long way from inner-city Memphis, but this is where two Memphis City School students spent their spring break. On March 12 a mission team co-sponsored by Arkwings Foundation and First Baptist Church of Memphis embarked on the 30-hour journey from [...]
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