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10 August 2010
By Johnson Mujungu | UK | Dr. Frank Byamugisha, the president of the International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB), was received by Ow’ekitiibwa JB Walusimbi, the Katikkiro (prime minister) of the Kingdom of Buganda when he paid a courtesy call on him on Friday August 6, 2010. Dr. Byamugisha, who was accompanied by Mr. David Behena, [...]
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10 August 2010
Join us for a wine and cheese reception to celebrate the grand opening of our newest photo exhibit, ZoomUganda . Grand Opening: August 12 @ 6 p.m. | ZoomUganda shares the journey of 12 girls given 12 cameras and 24 hours in which to tell their own stories through their own lenses. A Photovoice project directed by [...]
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05 July 2010
By Ronnie Mayanja | Ugandan Philanthropy in Focus | Los Angeles city Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa during a World Vision sponsored event aimed at building an Alliance with the City of L.A to help rehabilate residents of the City and also promote Healthy Living lifestyle. As a fitness consultant Mr. Robert Ssebugwawo of Bob’s fitness can [...]
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24 June 2010
VOA | A new report by the Washington-based, anti-genocide Enough Project says the elusive leader of the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army was nearly caught last year by the Ugandan army in a remote area of the Central African Republic. But group says limited assistance from the international community and lack of support from regional [...]
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24 June 2010
Chicago | Highland Park area teens will put on their second annual Shred for Uganda skate boarding competition, fund-raiser and festival from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday (June 27) at the skate park in Sunset Woods Park. More than 40 skaters are expected to take part in the skateboard contest with their $20 entrance fees [...]
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11 June 2010
By Ronnie Mayanja | www.unaatimes.com | It was a night of music at the Waltham French Club organised to benefit the children of Kigalama in Mityana, Uganda. The event kicked off with a presentantion by the Kironde Foundation & Health Fund founders Katiti Kironde & William C. Winder. Other speakers included Reverend Mary Tusuubira who [...]
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07 June 2010
By BELINDA LUSCOMBE | Twesigye Jackson Kaguri’s American Dream was motoring along quite nicely until he was besieged by grandmothers. Born in a remote part of western Uganda, he’d studied hard enough to get to college in the capital, Kampala, and then to the U.S. He had an American job, an American wife and the [...]
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03 June 2010
About the concert: Time: 6:30pm to 12am | Cost: $10 | Location: French-American Club 193 Elm St, Waltham, MA There will be live music performances by TOUCH & SOUL BAND, BATABAZI, MBALIRE GEORGEi and many more… Proceeds from concert will go to purchase rainwater cisterns for Ugandan families in Kigalama, 70 miles west of Kampala, [...]
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28 April 2010
By Ronnie Mayanja | www.unaatimes.com | On Saturday April 24 2010 a group of Ugandans from Kigezi and Busoga organised a fundraiser as an act of solidarity to pay tribute to the Kasubi tombs . The occasion that begun with a vigil at the Waltham Common, in a spot aptly named “Circle of Remembrance” in honor of those fallen [...]
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24 April 2010
By Johnson Mujungu | A group of Ugandans from the former greater Kigezi district, now resident in the United Kingdom have raised Shs 2.3 million as a contribution to the rebuilding the UNESCO heritage site of Kasubi Tombs in Uganda which were burnt down in March. The grouping, under their umbrella association, International Community of [...]
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18 April 2010
By MAREESA NICOSIA, The Saratogian | MALTA — Although Paul Phillips technically retired from his job as a university administrator years ago, he works full time in another educational role: as a volunteer in Uganda. His team of volunteers, six from the area and one from California, returned from the country in February, and he [...]
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29 March 2010
By Ronnie Mayanja | www.unaatimes.com | Last Thursday March 25th 2010 I was invited to a Uganda Rural Development and Training Program URDT sponsors event in Concord MA. The event planned in honor of the URDT founder Mwalimu Musheshe drew several notables from the Jewish lobby including Peter Senge the an American Scientist and the [...]
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19 March 2010
By John Mary Lugemwa | Uganda Rural Fund Initiative | We usually don’t do this type of solicitation but this is an emergency situation and we are trying to help people in Eastern Uganda in some small way as we can. Over 100 people are found dead, many still missing, and 6,000 families are in [...]
14 March 2010
KYAKA II REFUGEE CAMP, (IRIN) – Inadequate healthcare is just one of many challenges facing the 16,200 refugees in this sprawling camp in western Uganda, which is served by a single doctor. Among those waiting in one of the camp’s two health centres when IRIN visited was Mirian, 30, whose child was shivering with fever, [...]
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14 March 2010
This is a little song/video mix of my biggest idols, McFly and Michael Jackson. Mainly video clips of them doing charity work. I love them for their amazing talents and personalities, and also for their big hearts. Especially Michael. To me, he was an angel walking the planet, and I can feel that he’s [...]
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17 February 2010
By Ronnie Mayanja | www.unaatimes.com | I recently returned from Kampala, Uganda were I had gone on a short but eventful holiday that had me travel to many places. But the one aspect of this trip that perhaps became a highlight of my stay in Uganda was my visit to the the newly established Hope [...]
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27 December 2009
Jersey Overseas Aid Commission is seeking volunteers to help with its projects planned for next year. It plans to help build a school for street children in Mongolia and set up a community farming co-operative to feed primary school children in Uganda. The organisation also wants to build a primary school with facilities for disabled [...]
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11 December 2009
By Ronnie Mayanja | December 1st is commemorated as the World Aids Day and in Boston last week there was spotlight on activities devoted to creating awareness of some sort. On one of my Friday evenings in conformity with tradition I had stopped by the Karibu Restaurant in Waltham to get a taste of some [...]
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02 December 2009
STOCKTON – University of the Pacific’s Invisible Children Club will hold a fundraiser from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Grace Covell Tiger Lounge to benefit children in Uganda. The club was founded last year to raise awareness about children in Uganda who are being abducted from their homes and forced to join rebel [...]
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09 November 2009
By JOSEPH DITS | Tribune Staff Writer | SOUTH BEND — They came to the dying man’s village in Uganda down a weaving, rutted dirt road. They found him lying in his dark hut. No windows, just a door. The cancer bulged near his eye. It reeked because of a lack of care — so [...]
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09 November 2009
BY HARVEY. T. ROCKWOOD | SUN NEWSPAPERS | Some of the proceeds from the annual Arts and Crafts Bazaar sponsored by the Women’s Ministries of Redemption Lutheran Church of Bloomington will go toward assisting a group of widows in Uganda. The bazaar will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, in the [...]
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04 November 2009
By Cate Lecuyer | DANVERS | When Uganda native Stephen Kasirye returned from a trip to Africa last year, his co-workers were touched by the photos of him wearing a Santa hat, handing out gifts to children in six orphanages. “After seeing them we wanted to help,” said Linda Morse, who works with Kasirye at [...]
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29 October 2009
(CNN) | Refugees at a settlement in southwestern Uganda have barricaded all roads into the camp to protest a food-aid disruption they say has caused the deaths of several children, refugee leaders said Tuesday. “We have spent three months without any food supplies from government nor from any food relief or humanitarian agency,” Congolese refugee [...]
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29 October 2009
By Daveen Rae Kurutz | TRIBUNE-REVIEW | M.J. Wahl was flabbergasted to learn there was a war no one cared about. Three years ago, after watching a film about the civil war in Uganda at his church, the West View teenager decided to raise awareness about it in Pittsburgh. “This isn’t something you read about [...]
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29 October 2009
By PAT KROCHMAL pkrochmal@pioneerlocal.com | A Glenbrook North High School student is trying to rebuild a collection of books meant for children in Uganda after an Oct. 18 Northbrook garage fire decimated it. Nathan Flanagan-Frankl, a senior, had gathered about 100 books and raised about $700 to purchase new books for the school’s Invisible Children [...]
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21 October 2009
By Olinka Rubadiri Yancey My name is Olinka and I was 37years old when I found a lump in my left breast. I could remember that moment like it was yesterday. June 9th 2007 my husband Damon had taken me on a trip to San Diego to celebrate my birthday.
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06 October 2009
UNAA Times | www.unaatimes.com | Omega Bugembe Okello | On the evening of October 10th, I will have the great honor of headlining at a benefit concert organized by the Village Enterprise Fund. This is a cause near and dear to my heart. Village Enterprise Fund has developed and refined a successful program that combines training, seed capital [...]
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22 September 2009
By Richard Garner, Education Editor | www.unaatimes.com | War-torn and lawless countries will receive a massive boost in international aid to fund education, under a shake-up due to be unveiled today.The Government is singling out countries in conflict as part of it’s wider £8.5bn aid package – heralding a switch in resources from backing a [...]
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24 June 2009
Kampala, Uganda, UNHCR | Popular for its progressive policies for refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, Uganda launches yet another friendly refugee law, meant to guide the operations of the over 140,000 refugees currently living on its soil. The launch of The Refugee Act was one of the activities intended to mark World Refugee Day 2009. [...]
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Interview: Head of the Diaspora Unit, Mrs. Bati Kawooya. Kampala
ICOB ~ Banyakigezi Convention Highlights – New Executive elected!
Falling through the Cracks: Young African Leaders Meeting
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