by Robin Kirk | Jun 17, 2007 | Robin Kirk
TIG terrace and lake Originally uploaded by FabiolaPal On the left, you can see the terraces built by TIG workers for communities that they attacked in 1994. On Saturdays, the workersgo out with members of the communities to work. Imagine working next to a man or...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 17, 2007 | Robin Kirk
TIG workers2 Originally uploaded by FabiolaPal These are Rwandans convicted by gachacha courts of having taken part in the 1994 genocide. Since Rwanda’s prisons are so full — over one million people are believed to have taken part in killing 900,000 people...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 16, 2007 | Robin Kirk
TASO group picture Originally uploaded by FabiolaPal We are off to Rwanda this evening, and I don’t know what the internet availability will be — so here is a last Uganda post, in hopes of more soon to come from Kigali. This is our delegation (without Wake...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 16, 2007 | Robin Kirk
TASO singers Originally uploaded by FabiolaPal Yesterday, we had the privilege of visiting TASO, a clinic in Kampala where Ugandans with HIV/AIDS get treatment, companionship and assistance in managing the disease and their lives. TASO has a musical group, and they...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 16, 2007 | Robin Kirk
Lam Cosmas, originally uploaded by FabiolaPal. One of the most moving presentations we heard this week was from Lam Oryem Cosmas, the Executive Secretary of the Justice and Peace Council of the Ecclesiastical Province of Gulu. A lay worker who is Catholic, Cosmas...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 13, 2007 | Robin Kirk
News focuses on the basket cases of the world. In Africa, than means Sudan, Zimbabwe, the Congo and Somalia. But less obvious to the casual news reader is the effect these extreme cases have on their neighbors. In Uganda, conflict elsewhere has immediate, visible...
