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Awareness
Ugandan
Education and Kyangwali Refugee Settlement
by Andrea Samuelson
Located in the Hoima District of Western Uganda, the
Kyangwali Refugee Settlement was home to 17,800 Congolese,
Sudanese, Rwandan, Kenyan, Burundian and Ethiopian
inhabitants in 2004. It is on this settlement that
our 15 sponsored Educate! students reside. Read
more...
Uganda:
The State of Ugandan Children
by Andrea Samuelson
Since its independence in 1962, Uganda has failed
to maintain any semblance of national unity. Bringing
infamy to his country Dictator Idi Amin was responsible
for the disappearances and deaths of between 100,000
and 500,000 people. He was overthrown in 1979 and
was succeeded by Milton Obote. Heightened expectations
for a more lenient leader resulted in an increase
of widespread violence. Read
more...
Special
Project - Educate!
Haiti:
The
situation in Haiti
by
Andrea Samuelson
Haiti
is considered to be the poorest nation in the western
world, the second poorest on earth. 81% of the population
(8 million) earns less than a dollar a day and 85%
live in abject poverty. Having a job is a good fortune
when compared to Haiti’s 70% unemployment rate.
Today, Haiti is in decline. One UN official reported
that some areas of Haiti’s capital are confronted
with a more pressing situation than that facing people
in the Darfur region of Sudan. Children have suffered
the most. Read
more...
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