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Kigo Prison

There are many situations in this country that you love, & some that are really sad. Our initial visit to the women at Kigo prison, was heart-breaking. It was 2 years ago, and the women had only one garment, ate one meal a day, many were digging in the fields but didn’t benefit from the [...]

Uganda’s North East has been experiencing the worst floods in over 10 years. Hundreds of thousands of people are either isolated, or have needed to leave their villages to stay in Internally Displaced Persons refugee camps on drier ground.  
Working with our local friends, we gathered 3 tons of cassava flour, beans & malaria medicine, and [...]

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Gulu

In Northern Uganda, for the last 19 years a terrible war has been raging in which thousands and thousands of children have been dragged from school & forced to join the Lord’s Resistance Army, at threat of life & limb if they didn’t comply. Both boys & girls were recruited [...]




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