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In the spirit of blog action day we here at Project Diaspora are going to do our little bit and join the conversation. Are you in?
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Not too long ago we interviewed Fred Mutebi and learned a bit about his Art Therapy program, Let Art Talk. This brief video gives a glimpse into the lives of two of the youth benefit …
Patricia Flanagan speaks at the UNAA kick-off dinner
USAID was gracious enough to send an emissary to speak to The Ugandan Diapora at the UNAA convention this year. We met Patricia Flanagan, on the convention floor …
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Young Professionals at UNAA Mixer
So, what promises to be a perpetually tardy convention, got off to a timely start at the Young professionals mixer. This event was not even on the original schedule. We saw …
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So we have arrived in Orlando full of anticipation but with very little idea of what this conference will hold. We were so excited to find the conference we never really looked at the conference …
As of late I have spent a tremendous amount of time in hospitals and nursing homes. I very quickly discovered that almost all of the caregivers… Please not the intentional use of “almost all”… Are …
Uganda’s own Scarlet Lion has created a Google group just for you…
Citizen Media in Uganda
From Glenna:
After I had received a bunch of inquires from people around the globe about
Citizen Media in Uganda, I thought it …
And then one day the question came… “Do you have any Moringa?” Ummm… whaaaa?
“MORINGA? What is that?” So scratching our heads we began to mine the depths that is a Google search and discovered that we did indeed have Moringa. Not only did we have Moringa, but it is an amazing multi-use, hardy miracle plant that if you believe what everyone says about it could feed the poor, help HIV/AIDS patients, purify water, feed livestock, be used as a biofuel, as well as grow stronger healthier plants and children. It almost sounds like the latest huckster prank, there is almost nothing this plant cannot do. If we had not been approached for it by a trusted friend I doubt we would have believed a word of it.
We here at Project Diaspora believe that the real hope for change in Uganda and the rest of Africa lies with its people both at home and in the Diaspora. So it was with no …
I am writing in response to an article in the Monitor on August 5th 2006 by Timothy Kalyegira entitled “Why haven’t our PhDs caused devt in Uganda?” In this article, writer among others refers to …
This announcement was just released yesterday by the US Embassy in Kampala, Uganda regarding Fred Mutebi.
FRED MUTEBI
April 2008 State Alumni Member of the Month.
Mr. Fred Mutebi, a 2003 alumnus of the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program, has …
So, what does it say about the state of the world, that the fastest growing and most active recruitment of Africans is by security contractors on the big land mine that used to be Iraq? …
If you want to learn more about the reading challenge visit Dave… and he will tell you all about it!
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
So far this reading challenge is turning into a crash …
Our friend Michael Kirkpatrick sent us this little bit of news. We are thrilled to see Fred Mutebi’s work as well as the work he is doing with “Let Art Talk” (in the organization he …
So, I get this random e-mail. It says “Do you know this guy?” Mind you this e-mail was not even sent to me, it was a forward from TMS Ruge. Which he got randomly from …
You don’t know, what you don’t know… until you do.
I joined this challenge, because I have been frustrated in my attempts to find note-worthy African authors. Clearly there are plenty, but without knowing who they …
If you want to learn more about the reading challenge visit Dave… and he will tell you all about it!
Ok thanks to Mike, Dave, the Insomniac and olmoti8 I am ready to revise my list. …
If you want to learn more about the reading challenge visit Dave… and he will tell you all about it!
Ok everybody… I need some serious help. I am both overwhelmed by the options and frustrated …
Funny, the world is always looking for ways to feed Africa, but these days Africa seems to set to feed the world! Just goes to show that when given the opportunity to take care of …
United Nations Children’s Fund goodwill ambassador Mia Farrow during a visit to a refugee camp in Darfur in 2006. (Nasser Nasser/Associated Press)
Ok, I have to admit that I am always a bit suspicions of attempts …
Guess what? The next big fad for AID to Africa is Moquito nets…
The World Health organization is pretty pumped about them
Bill Gates thinks they are pretty cool
“Millions of children have died from malaria because they …
Umh… yeah she rocks.
Snarky, smart and extreamly well informed.
I missed her during her recent posting hiatus. Also her photography is quite nice. She is nominated in the The Kampalan’s Best of Blogs… for photography. …
If you did not check her out the last time I blogged about her… go check her out… right. freakin. now.
Not for the the easily queasy… her latest blog fearlessly looks at the disrespect with …
Yeah… READ IT HERE
Great post by White African on ways to address the coming financial hit that all this violence will wreak on Kenya. Do you have ideas on how to leverage technology to make …
Ohhh… YAY! I found more fiction Never Man. A blog dedicated to the novel of the inimitable Ernest Bazanye. Well respected in the amongst the UG Blogren, he shows his mastery of the …
