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There are many NGOs in the world and not every one of them is something very similar. They contrast with one another in numerous ways. The principal contrast would be their point and objective that they are running after. They could likewise contrast in size, how they work and carry out their projects. Every one of these Uganda food security organizations would likewise have their approach to creating funds for feeding the children. Some of them would have contacts with those living onboard and
Proposing the novel concept of the \"literary NGO,\" this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their professional activities and the cultural funding sector to make an original contribution to African literary criticism and cultural studies.
An enormous number of children in Uganda pas away each year because of absence of proper nourishment. The NGOs work with the networks and government to work on the wellbeing of children. Child work…
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Infographic in English on South Sudan about Contributions; published on 25 Feb 2014 by OCHA and ReliefWeb
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Homes of Promise, a Christian charity based in Uganda, have been granted a further five years as an NGO. Great news for Jane, who is currently in the Uk!
In 2017, senior officials from both Ghana and the U.S. met to discuss the progress made and aimed at achieving policy goals set forth in the U.S. – Ghana Child Protection Compact (CPC) partnership established in 2015. The delegation came together to further “activities aimed at achieving the five year partnership’s objectives.” The objectives were […]
Tuberculosis is still a very deadly disease – especially in the former Soviet Union. The number of patients with very difficult to treat forms of tuberculosis is growing steadily in that part of th…
Homes of Promise, a Christian charity based in Uganda, have been granted a further five years as an NGO. Great news for Jane, who is currently in the Uk!
The fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York, tentatively scheduled for 9-20 March 2015. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world attend the session.
Tribal development is a vital social need in India. Because tribes are highly marginalized people of India and some of whom are on the verge of extinction and many are suffering from various types of human deprivations and exploitations. So the Government of India has been trying seriously to provide protection to tribal people and it has also been…
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Greenwatch Uganda is reportedly taking legal action against the Uganda Wildlife Authority for approving the export of seven tonnes of pangolin scales.
We have been avoiding the topic, honestly, because it is a raw one for us. In 2007 we lived through an ebola epidemic. In the remote area of Uganda where we worked, along the Congo border, ebola crossed over from the animal reservoir in the Ituri forest and began infecting humans. We were both exposed before we knew that the disease was ebola. Our best Ugandan friend and colleague Dr. Jonah Kule died, and the only other doctor besides us in the district of over 200,000 people became infected but recovered. When the disease was confirmed, we sent our kids away to stay with other missionaries until we completed a 21 day disease-free incubation. We decided at one point that only Scott would see patients and I would not, to minimize the risk of both parents going down. For months we lived with the lingering cloud of doubt, the on-edge expectation of potentially deadly touches in our medical care, the grief of losing our friend. So we have been following the news of this epidemic very closely, communicating with some of the organizations involved, praying. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it has dominated much of our mental and emotional energy for the last month. Now that 2 people have been infected in America, and there is mass hysteria, perhaps a few words are in order, even though we are actually no closer to the epicenter here than most people reading from America are (we are several thousand miles away). This is a West African epidemic. It is sad and regrettable that one of the hundreds and hundreds of travelers who come to the USA from this area happened to have been exposed in an act of kindness, and got sick. And that two nurses are now infected. However this in NO WAY makes the American experience in any way comparable to Liberia, Guinea, or Sierra Leone. That is two transmissions out of hundreds of millions of people. The risk in America is extremely low. Americans have gloves and masks and running water and bleach and hospitals and suits and disposable everything and money and transportation and doctors and nurses and janitors and experts. Americans have panic, and demands. In American culture, no-risk of a disease is considered to be a birthright; yet people routinely drive too fast, eat and drink too much, play with guns. Or fly in airplanes or rock climb or do a thousand other things more likely to kill them than ebola. The point is that in spite of headlines about school closings and plane cleanings and it's all Obama's fault somehow, the virus will be contained in America. West Africa is another story. Ebola is a tragic and frightening disease, because it is transmitted by the most basic human acts of community. Wiping tears, carrying a child, cleaning up a mess, hugging. And it seeks out those most caring. I think it frightens by being mythically diabolical, killing the very people who are most bravely fighting against it. The PPE's turn people into spacemen, aliens. The origin is in Africa and that is always suspect. So it is hard to separate the emotional layers from the facts. (This graphic on health care workers is from a Forbes article: 232 deaths out of 404 infections). Ebola does not have to have a 90% mortality. One of the surprises of this epidemic is that a good number of the people who by nationality or connection got airlifted out and received intensive excellent care actually survived. The official stats are running at just over 50% mortality, though the treatment centers see more like a 70% fraction of death. Our own epidemic was less than 50%. I thought that was because our virus was different. But maybe it was just good care (smaller numerator) and compulsive case finding (bigger denominator). Medical care makes a difference. The sick should not be written off as hopeless, and locked in isolation to die. The leaders in compassionate response are the African doctors and nurses and community health mobilizers and ambulance drivers and taxi-owners and parents and friends. But they were too few six months ago, and they are many fewer now. I am glad that the American military is responding. I know it is not politically savvy to be in favor of marital law. But this epidemic needs an infusion of organization, of money, of can-do, of discipline. In Bundibugyo, MSF came in with tents and supplies. Our airstrip became the staging area for sending samples out and people in. Our district leader (RDC in Ugandan parlance) was ex-military, and he kept everyone working together. Every night we had a close-of-day meeting and coordination time. It was local, and we were far from the rest of the world, and it worked. In the current epidemic, decades of civil war, resource pillaging, injustice, poverty, distrust, corruption, etc. have weakened not only the health infrastructure but the political organizing ability to gain momentum. So if that requires a temporary military infusion, so be it. Allowing people to continue to suffer insecurity and chaos is not helping anyone. If we say we care about justice, then it is legitimate to respond to this need JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING and not because we're trying to protect the plague from coming to America. There are two things that will stop the epidemic: 1. Treat the sick, humanely, safely, respectfully, compassionately, expertly. For this we need those treatment centers built, now. And staffed. The American military is one of the best organizations on earth poised to mobilize buildings and equipment and expertise. So please don't object. 2. Trace and monitor the contacts, isolating anyone with symptoms the very hour they become sick. In Bundibugyo we had massive community mobilization. There was nowhere to go really. It was horrible to never touch anyone, to sit apart, to be so careful. But when we were in our 21-day riskiest period, we did that. It is possible to stop transmission if this is carefully followed. Personal liberties have to be curtailed for a while. Asymptotic people are not a danger to anyone else, but it makes sense to lay low in case this is the day symptoms would start. And neither of those two things are happening very fast. The countries involved have resources similar to Bundibugyo, meaning not many. The few responding organizations are overwhelmed, and don't even have the administrative capacity to do much more. So . . . 1. Be informed. Here is Paul Farmer's analysis. The New York Times and the Washington Post have sane and thoughtful articles. 2. Support SIM, MSF, IMC, Americares, Samaritan's Purse. Support our troops. 3. Pray. Jesus would be more concerned about helping the sick in Liberia than castigating the CDC in America. He would be touching the contaminated, and comforting the mourners, and bringing hope. Let us do the same.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders, anthropologist Kristen E. Cheney argues that these humanitarian groups have misread the 'orphan crisis'. She explains how the global humanitarian focus on orphanhood often elides the social and political circumstances that actually present the greatest adversity to vulnerable children--in effect deepening the crisis and thereby affecting children's lives as irrevocably as HIV/AIDS itself. Through ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative research with children in Uganda, Cheney traces how the \"best interest\" principle that governs children's' rights can stigmatize orphans and leave children in the post-antiretroviral era even more vulnerable to exploitation. She details the dramatic effects this has on traditional family support and child protection and stresses child empowerment over pity. Crying for Our Elders advances current discussions on humanitarianism, children's studies, orphanhood, and kinship. By exploring the unique experience of AIDS orphanhood through the eyes of children, caregivers, and policymakers, Cheney shows that despite the extreme challenges of growing up in the era of HIV/AIDS, the post-ARV generation still holds out hope for the future.
