2009 Africa Updates

African Update: July 14

African Update: July 14

Greetings from Uganda! Today will be the last update from Africa! Tomorrow we will be leaving Masaka, and traveling to Entebbe to catch our flight home. We'll certainly be sad to be saying goodbye. Today we met with Bishop Kaggwa to continue ...

African Update: July 13

African Update: July 13

Hello to all! On Friday, we were able to visit Rubondo Island National Park. We hired a driver, Willie, to take us the three hours south to Mwangara where we could catch a boat to the island. The ride was very interesting because all ...

African Update: Wednesday April 7

African Update: Wednesday April 7

From Heather, our Executive Director: The Africa-Middle East Microcredit Summit, www.microcreditsummit.org, is about to begin.  In our programs we read that one-fifth of the world’s population lives on less than $1 US per day, and that in 2006 the Global ...

African Update: Tuesday April 6

African Update: Tuesday April 6

From Heather, our Executive Director: Khalid Din joined us for breakfast.  He will be dropped off at the airstrip during the morning game drive.  What an outgoing, generally happy guy.  As we ate, a vervet monkey ventured into the dining room.  ...