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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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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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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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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19 April 2009
MADISON – Impoverished schoolchildren in Masajja, Uganda, will receive some much-needed help this summer from students at Drew University in Madison. Raising the funds to extend that help will begin with a “family fun day” offered to the Madison community from 1 to 5 p.m. this Sunday, April 19, with dodge ball, kickball and three-legged races [...]
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11 April 2009
Hello Friends Invisible Children has organized a global event called THE RESCUE, to be held on April 25th in over 100 cities and in 9 countries around the world, including Boston. In each city, people will be gathering to “abduct” themselves in solidarity with the abducted child soldiers of Uganda and the Congo who have [...]
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27 March 2009
MADISON – Madison High School’s Interact Club is collecting books to support the “Invisible Children” organization in Uganda, Africa, where 1 million children have been abducted and evicted from their homes, caught in the crossfire of a 22-year civil war. The books are sent and distributed to overcrowded shelters where children take refuge while [...]
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15 March 2009
SAN DIEGO. n Last fall, the students of John Horn High School raised $14,615 to rebuild schools in northern Uganda and rallied their community to end the longest-running war in Africa. After accepting the challenge posed by the non-profit organization Invisible Children, students were asked “how far would you go?” as a part of their [...]
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13 February 2009
UNICEF has called for increased efforts to end female genital cutting, as the world marks International Day against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). “Some 70 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital cutting,” said Ann M. Veneman, UNICEF executive director.
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25 January 2009
By Richard Mandell. "I believe that the work of The PanAfrican Acupuncture Project is indeed imbedded within the missions of all those organizations seeking to address the needs of those with HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB. Perhaps ironically, it is the simplicity and cost-effective nature of our trainings that often put us outside of the usual purview of larger foundations. I strongly feel, however, that the dramatic results make it a program that deserves attention."
08 January 2009
No ordinary man – an American’s love to serve Ugandans and others, By Ronnie Mayanja “My glass is very full and I enjoy sharing it with as many people as I can” There are Ugandans who are taking the initiative in tackling their community problems in spheres such as education, health, youth, agriculture, technology, women [...]
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05 January 2009
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International is a not-for-profit organization founded by Dr. Dian Fossey in 1978 to preserve and protect the world’s last mountain gorillas. Originally named “Digit Fund” in memory of Dr. Fossey’s favorite gorilla, the Fund was renamed in 1992 to underscore its commitment to carry on the gorilla protection and research [...]
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03 January 2009
Breast Cancer Initiative East Africa (BCIEA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to take the lead in the advancement of breast cancer surveillance and improved survival rates targeted to the most neglected population in the low income communities of East Africa.
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30 December 2008
One of the greatest needs in northern Uganda and one of the largest gaps in development comes in the region’s access to secondary education. To address this problem we created the Visible Child Scholarship Program, an initiative that develops the leadership and life skill capacities of promising students. Pioneered by Uganda’s Country Director Jolly Grace [...]
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