Daily Life, Education Programs & Schools 15 March 2009

Vivian Glyck, founder of Just Like My Child Foundation and Denise Mullins of The Collective Heart move around with the District Education Office for Luweero to review some potential school building sites.
Vivian and Denise move around the Siira Memorial Primary School to see what is already on the ground and …

 Education Programs & Schools 12 March 2009

Katikamu is hard at work preparing for the final building stages of the classroom block
Most of the necessary roofing timbers have been measured and cut
Mr. Oliang Ben, the project coordinator is eagerly anticipating the completion of the final building phases

The building up of the veranda is now complete
The community members …

 Children, Volunteer Spotlight 12 March 2009

Rev. Dekontee Panton, miracle worker to reform lives of many ex-child soldiers
Just met the most amazing man on the my journey from Liberia to Uganda. He got off the plane in Accra, Ghana.
He has coordinated the resettlement of hundreds of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war and shepherded them …

 Daily Life, Women 12 March 2009

Some of the smoked delicacies at Ralleytown Marketplace, Monrovia, Liberia
Well here I am in the most beautiful suite in the Cape Hotel in Liberia which I was moved to after two nights of being in a room with a broken air conditioner with exposed, leaky PVC piping and two hugantical …

 Women 9 March 2009

President Ellen of Liberia and President Halonen of Finland sign Monrovia Agreement
Two Liberian women represent some of the stunning fashions seen at the event.

The International Colloquium on Women’s Empowerment, Leadership, Development, International Peace and Security ended yesterday with the signing of the Monrovia Agreement aimed at implementing many of …