Day Eight | Sponsorship: The Gift that Changes Everything
Kampala, Uganda | The children of Good Samaritan School are survivors. Most have been directly impacted by the brutality of the LRA or the devastating AIDS epidemic. The majority are orphans with virtually no chance for survival . . . until they came to Good...Day Seven: Reclaiming the Slums
Katwe, Uganda | Evah Mugerwa, affectionately known as “Mama Evah,” is on a mission to reclaim one of Uganda’s most notorious slums. The streets of Katwe are littered with garbage, raw sewage . . . and orphans—children who have either lost their parents to crime, AIDS,...Day Six: A Place to Call Home
Northern Uganda | The Lord’s Resistance Army’s reign of terror throughout rural Uganda triggered a wave of mass chaos. Thousands of Ugandans fled to escape the violence of the rebel army, causing a refugee crisis of disastrous proportions. Because either...Day Five: It’s Never Too Late for Hope
They told me that if I didn’t kill my brother now . . . they would kill me, Moses said. My brother kept yelling, ‘Do it . . . you will live . . . do it!’ Moses told me he was crying and kept saying that he couldn’t do it, but the soldiers were screaming at him and...
Every day, I try to live my life in such a way that I accomplish at least one thing that will outlive me and last for eternity.