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Three local women are trying to make life better for 80 widows on the other side of the world. Lisa Tschetter of Eden Prairie and Carol Vogt and Kari Miller, both of Edina, started the Dorcas Widows Fund to help the Dorcas Widows, who are women living in Kampala, Uganda.
Lisa Tschetter watched a baby play with a broken CD in a slum in Kampala, Uganda during a recent trip to Africa. She fought the urge to take the dangerous object away, however, because it was the baby's only toy.
KAMPALA, Uganda (Dow Jones)--The Ugandan government will allocate suitable alternative land to India's Tata Coffee Ltd. (532301.BY) for the construction of a $20 million soluble coffee plant after disputes over the original site delayed the project, the managing director of the state-run Uganda Coffee Development Authority told Dow Jones Newswires Thursday.
An art teacher from Tate High School is flying to Kampala, Uganda, where he will help lead the painting of a mural at an orphanage for children whose parents have died of AIDS.
They arrive during the night with their construction tools. Some come with hired security guards. These are the wetland encroachers of Kampala , hoping to claim land before the watchful eye of the National Environmental Management Authority notices and evicts them.
A law will be passed banning female genital mutilation (FGM) in Uganda, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced Friday. In his announcement, Museveni referenced a resolution passed last year by the United Nations that declared FGM a violation of women's rights. President Museveni said in his...
Girls in Uganda learn how to teach others to realize their visions, createjobs and wealth in rural areas.
Uganda was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to register a drop in adult national prevalence in HIV. The epidemic, however, remains serious as approximately one million Ugandans are HIV positive. Experts in the field have begun promoting a low cost and powerful weapon against new HIV infections: voluntary medical male circumcision.
In many cases it's a woman that grips the blade -- maybe clean, maybe dirty -- that cuts a girl's path to womanhood.
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- At least 35 people have died of starvation in Uganda’s northern, northeastern and northwestern regions in the past three weeks, Daily Monitor reported, citing officials from the regions.
Local therapist Wanda Brothers will travel to Uganda, Africa, July 15 to help child victims of war. Uganda has been rife with war and violence for a long time.
Next month a group from Christ Church at Grove Farm will travel to Uganda for the 10th and final time. read more »
Wilberforce Kateregga emigrated from his Ugandan homeland for the United States, and to Waltham, in 1999.
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Tullow Oil Plc , the U.K. explorer with projects in Africa, Europe and South Asia, reported further oil discoveries in Uganda as production fell in the U.K.
Glorius Kyarihunda was murdered by her husband at 25-years-old. The man hacked his wife of 10 years to death with a machete in Western Uganda...
Peoples Baptist Church will be holding an auction on Friday, July 17 to raise money for church repairs and a mission trip to Uganda. Five people will be traveling to Uganda from Oct. 1 to Oct. 13. They are Barry Clinkenbeard, Tonya Clinkenbeard, Chris Kelly, Pastor David Clark and Charles Clark.
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