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Teacher Exchange // Florence is back
May 20, 2013 by Bethany Williams
The brightly painted walls of the classroom are showing signs of wear: paint chipped, smudges from the hundreds of sweaty hands and the dry season that whips storms of red dust up from the roads to coat trees, grass and buildings. Rows of wooden benches seat high school students, dressed smartly in their matching uniforms. [...] Read More
The ICU Office: challenging the local supermarket to a soccer match
May 16, 2013 by Germina Nanfuka
The friendly soccer match between the staff of Uchumi supermarket and Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) staff was neck-and-neck as both teams played with determination. As the participating teams did their best, so did the spectators who cheered all through the game with the hope of motivating their different teams. “We go, we go,” sang the [...] Read More
A WASH story
May 13, 2013 by Bethany Williams
Akello Agnes walks down a narrow dirt path leading away from the clearing where she lives. In less than a minute she comes across a borehole, and her 4-year-old son Tony jumps up and down, smiling, as he demonstrates how to pump water from the borehole built by Invisible Children Uganda and partners charity:water and [...] Read More
Uganda: Photo Friday
May 3, 2013 by Bethany Williams
We love supporting a good cause, and getting some exercise in the process. Last Sunday staff and beneficiaries of Invisible Children Uganda took to the streets of Gulu for the Northern Uganda Marathon fundraiser for maternal health. Eight staff and 19 of the Mend seamstresses came to run the 10k, our own Laker Pamela taking [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange: What Harriet Brought Back
May 1, 2013 by Bethany Williams
I’m sitting near the front of the 140 student classroom at Keyo Secondary School on top of a hill in northern Uganda. Acan Harriet jumps right into the lesson. She has a dry, matter-of-fact tone as she delves into English grammar with her high school class. A cell phone rings with a hit club song. [...] Read More
Catching up to the kids
April 24, 2013 by Bethany Williams
Patrick Ocan is a member of the Village Savings and Loan Associations group Pur Kwiri Alok, which has the optimistic meaning “there is no loss in farming.” Everyone in the group is a farmer. For many members of the group, life has been about survival. Completing an education had to be put on the back [...] Read More
Let the games begin
April 9, 2013 by Germina Nanfuka
Ten schools participated in the fifth annual inter-school volleyball tournament under the theme “Games and Sports Discipline the Mind,” a tournament organized by the Legacy Scholarship Program to provide an outlet for the competitive spirit among the students, preparing them for a competitive world. With teamwork and perseverance, the players gave it their all, encouraged [...] Read More
Legacy Scholarship Program provides a better ending
March 27, 2013 by Bethany Williams
Earlier this month, a story ran in a Ugandan national newspaper about a promising student unable to continue his studies because his family couldn’t afford to pay for his tuition. He ranked at number one in his district, but knowing he could not pay for the much more expensive secondary education, he determined to repeat [...] Read More
Uganda: Photo Friday
March 22, 2013 by Bethany Williams
Students at Invisible Children Uganda partner school Sir Samuel Baker wash up after class. Invisible Children partners with 11 schools in northern Uganda to build structures such as laboratories, classrooms and dormitories, and to conduct trainings for teachers and students on a variety of topics from academic to how to improve hygiene on campus.
Legacy Scholarship: sparking conversation
February 12, 2013 by Germina Nanfuka
“Reproductive health is a topic not many parents and youth in Uganda openly talk about; this has posed a major challenge in the lives of many youth in northern Uganda,” says Patience Ayecan, a specialist working with Reproductive Health Uganda. Patience, a guest speaker at the Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) students and parent/guardian gathering was [...] Read More
