“My name is Acaa Magrate Loum. I’m now 38 years old. Born from Lakang and got married to Loum who is now 40 years old from Lakang in 1992 when i was only 17 years old. At that time, we lived in Lakang without any problem of land dispute. We lived knowing that the land […]
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“If you go to one of those third world countries and come back here, you’ll kiss the ground you walk on.”
Have you ever felt the difference between going through something that feels impossibly difficult while knowing you are exactly where you need to be – and going through hell for absolutely no fruitful reason? Since I have last blogged, I have felt both of these feelings intensely, and I haven’t found a way to articulate […]
Hardcore Music, Effective Fundraising, & the Widow’s Coin
What do noisy music, raising money, and land theft have in common? Nothing, it seems. That was my first thought when a friend recently invited me on a brief tour with his band (based in New England), offering the space to sell some jewelry and reach out to music lovers on behalf of Solidarity Uganda. […]
SU Given Grant for Solar Communication
Browse photos and learn more below, including how you can expand the network with us! Why A Solar Communication Project? When a dictator and his regime begin to realize people are organizing themselves to create a better society, they make things difficult and cut off the electricity supply. UMEME is the electricity provider for Uganda, […]
On Not Being an Orphanage: Development(‘s History) vs./and Liberation
What if development, as we knew it, was inherently bad? I have not written on this blog for quite awhile, because I was reading. It was the first book I have read since college, and it was a dense, long-winded one: Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez’s “A Theology of Liberation.” Gutierrez’s basic argument is that truly Christian […]