by Sarah Stone | Aug 14, 2013 | News
Nine years ago, 78 percent of northern Uganda’s Gulu District were living in abject poverty, internally displaced and dependent on supplies from the World Food Programme (WFP) to even survive. Today, 12 communities in Gulu are selling their excess produce back...
by Sarah Stone | Jun 28, 2013 | News
“Land is everything here,” says Alex Vickers, BMS World Mission worker in Gulu, northern Uganda. With land comes the possibility of growing crops to feed your family and pay for your children’s education. “If you have land,” he says,...
by Sarah Stone | Jun 27, 2013 | News
Imagine a childhood like the one George had: Forced, at age 11, to leave his family behind and join the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. Forced to fight. “I was given to the group of the commander,” he says. Abducted with a group of children...