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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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30 August 2011
By Matt O’Brien – Contra Costa Times, OAKLAND, Carlifornia ~ Being gay in Uganda was never easy for gospel singer Daniel Dyson, but the anti-gay hysteria that erupted in the African nation two years ago forced him to flee. Prominent Christian pastors had launched a political movement to eliminate homosexuality in the country. They employed [...]
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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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16 August 2011
BBC ~ The Iteso people of eastern Uganda and western Kenya are looking for ways to preserve their language Ateso. An estimated 7,000 languages are spoken around the world, but that number is expected to shrink rapidly in the coming decades. According to the UN cultural body Unesco, Ateso is one of those in danger [...]
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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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01 August 2011
The organizing Committee for Bethel Prayer Line Ministries cordially invites you to their 2nd Anniversary due to take place on September 30th at 2:00pm and October 1st, 2011 at 10:00am. Venue: Sixth Presbyterian Church, 5413 16th Street, NW Washington DC 20011. For more information Call (202) 375-4160, 713-480-2778
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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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08 July 2011
HOUSTON ~ NASA Flight Directors Kwatsi Alibaruho (KWAT-see Ah-lee-buh-roo-hoe) of Maywood, Ill., and Chris Edelen of Martinsville, Va., will support the scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-135 mission, the final flight of the 30-year Space Shuttle Program. On July 8, Atlantis and four NASA astronauts are scheduled to lift off from NASA’s [...]
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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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22 June 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | Editor, UNAA Times ~ The first time I ever heard of the name – Kwatsi Alibaruho, was when I picked up a copy of Ebony Magazine (one of the leading publications for African Americans in the USA) from a newstand in 2005. The magazine had ranked him among the most influential [...]
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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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16 June 2011
PARIS (AFP) – Hollywood star and director Forest Whitaker is to be named goodwill ambassador for peace and reconciliation for the United Nations’ educational, scientific and cultural body, UNESCO said on Thursday. Whitaker, who won an Oscar for his 2006 portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada in “The Last King of Scotland”, is to [...]
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02 June 2011
By Laurie Monsebraaten, Toronto Star | At 21, Lilliane Namukasa left Uganda to make a new life in Canada as a live-in caregiver for two small children. But after working full-time for two years, she was paid just $2,100 by her Brampton employer and then fired without cause, forcing her into a homeless shelter, Namukasa [...]
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01 June 2011
RENGEN, (AFP) – Simon Peter Lotia is not only more than twice the age and double the height of his fellow pupils at Rengen primary school in northeast Uganda, but he towers over most of his teachers as well. For many of the years when he should have been in school, Lotia, 23, was launching [...]
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30 May 2011
Saturday May 28th 2011, was a colorful evening as Mr. Pius Bugembe, the Chairman of the Ugandan American Association of Greater New York, wed his long time girlfriend and sweetheart Hedwig Tushabe at the Holy Rosary Catholic Parish in the Bronx, New York. The wedding was attended by a host of dignitaries that included the [...]
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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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24 May 2011
Barbara Birungi | South Africa Dispatch | Coming home to (Uganda) used to be a very exciting feeling, as they say “East or West home is best” As we drove from Entebbe airport, I was looking for the sign post ” Welcome to Kampala City”, but there was none. My first welcome experience, when I [...]
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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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16 May 2011
(CNN) — Olympic marathon gold medalist Samuel Wanjiru died early Monday from injuries sustained after jumping from the balcony of his Nyahururu home in central Kenya, a senior police official said. Wanjiru jumped from the second-floor of his home late Sunday after his wife caught him in the company of another woman, said Jasper Ompati, [...]
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13 May 2011
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press | WASHINGTON – Jackpot! Not so fast. For a few joyful days, more than 20,000 people around the world thought they literally had hit the lottery and won a chance to come and live legally in the United States. Oops, the State Department said Friday, we had computer problems and have to [...]
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