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Uganda | A visit to Hope Watoto Leadership Academy

Uganda | A visit to Hope Watoto Leadership Academy

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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Helpers sought for Uganda aid projects

Helpers sought for Uganda aid projects

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 children [...]

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NFSC | Meet the Namugongo Fund for Special Children

NFSC | Meet the Namugongo Fund for Special Children

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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Fundraiser for children in Uganda | Invisible Children

Fundraiser for children in Uganda | Invisible Children

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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Local hospice partners with group in Uganda

Local hospice partners with group in Uganda

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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Bloomington bazaar effort aims to help widows in Uganda

Bloomington bazaar effort aims to help widows in Uganda

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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Local workers to head to Uganda to aid orphanages

Local workers to head to Uganda to aid orphanages

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 Northeast [...]

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Refugees protest food disruption in Uganda

Refugees protest food disruption in Uganda

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 leader [...]

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West View teen inspired to aid Uganda’s youngsters

West View teen inspired to aid Uganda’s youngsters

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 in [...]

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GBN student to reassemble books for Uganda collection after fire

GBN student to reassemble books for Uganda collection after fire

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 Book Drive, [...]

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Breast Cancer Survivor | One Ugandan Woman’s Inspirational Story

Breast Cancer Survivor | One Ugandan Woman’s Inspirational Story

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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Omega Bugembe Okello | Benefit Concert | Oct. 10th

Omega Bugembe Okello | Benefit Concert | Oct. 10th

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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Britain pledges £8.5bn boost for education in war zones

Britain pledges £8.5bn boost for education in war zones

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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Uganda launches a progressive Refugee Act

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. “With [...]

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Wake Forest University, MBA program | FREE Tuition for Minority Students

Wake Forest University, MBA program | FREE Tuition for Minority Students

12 May 2009

The Master of Art in Management program is designed specifically for liberal arts majors only. The MA degree program is a 10 month intense study of the basic functional areas of business. After graduation and working for approximately two years, all MA graduates are eligible to apply to Wake Forest as part of the MA/MBA [...]

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Egypt donates food aid to Uganda

27 April 2009

Egypt has extended humanitarian assistance to the government of Uganda targeting areas of the country that are severely affected by food shortage and food security. This was revealed by the Egyptian Ambassador to Uganda, Reda Bebars, who paid a courtesy call on Janet Museveni at State House, Nakasero. The areas to benefit are especially Karamoja Sub-region [...]

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Invisible Children | Join "The Rescue" On April 25, 2009

Invisible Children | Join "The Rescue" On April 25, 2009

22 April 2009

On April 25, 2009 we at Invisible Children will again publicly gather to ask for an end to this war. Thousands of people in a 100 cities across the world will join together on this day for a historic event called “The Rescue”.

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Rock concert benefit for Uganda's former child soldiers

Rock concert benefit for Uganda's former child soldiers

19 April 2009

By Lucinda Ryan | “I’m passionate about helping people,” said Tigray Kahsai, a junior at Alameda Community Learning Center charter school. That passion has led to Kahsai’s latest venture — a benefit concert by two alternative rock bands to raise money for former child soldiers in Northern Uganda.

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Woman heads to Uganda to help children

19 April 2009

In two weeks, Rennie Duncan of Palm Desert will travel to live in a country she’s never been to and care for children she’s never met. Duncan, 61, said Saturday she decided a year ago that she was leaving the United States to live in Uganda to care for children orphaned by HIV, poverty and [...]

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