Uganda

Sunday is World Water Day

Last summer I spent several days with a Ugandan family in a suburb outside Kampala, Uganda’s capital.  When this family needs water for washing, cooking, and drinking, the daughters walk about a quarter of a mile to go get it.  After a few hours of insisting that i wanted to go with them to collect [...]

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The Long and Short Run of It

This morning I received an email from World Vision highlighting the most recent news on the current food shortage in East Africa. BBC East Africa Food Crisis report World Vision does an excellent job of keeping its donor community up-to-date on how instability (economic, political, environmental) is affecting people around the world and where there [...]

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