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Notes from Conrad Mandsager |
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War of another kind...
In northern Uganda, peace is finally peaking over the horizon … or is it? With no rebel attacks in the past year and the rebel army ensconced deep in the DRC-Congo, the people of the Acholi region are taking the first steps towards reestablishing their homes and communities. Because of the failed peace talks and the recent military action against the LRA in the Congo, the security of the region is still somewhat uncertain. Yet, buoyed by cautious optimism, over 60% of the people have left the IDP camps and are moving home.
Ground is being turned over for farms and gardens by plows and hoes after years of laying fallow. Huts are springing up, rising up from old foundations and homesteads. Cattle, goats, and sheep dot the landscape, grazing peacefully under the watchful eyes of boys and men. School yards are once again full of children in brightly colored school uniforms, playing, talking, laughing. Roadside markets are full of fresh produce. Long lines of women and girls overwhelm every available water source…
Read more…
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You and your school can make a difference in northern Uganda! Help to raise funds! Bring awareness to the war- affected children and their families! Check it out today!
www.voices-rising.com
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Natalie, an intern with ChildVoice International writes about the child mothers at the ChildVoice Lukodi Centre, "they know there is more to this life then this back- breaking labor… crushed between earth and sky... there is a weight more crushing- the weight of hope deferred, a hope for more, a hope for something better…" Natalie spent August through December 2008 at the Lukodi Centre in northern Uganda, working with the girls to identify goals and plan for their futures. The experience changed her life.
Read about Natalie's internship with ChildVoice…
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Spring is here! The weather is warmer, the sun seems brighter, and green grass grows underfoot. The earth seems to renew itself before our eyes. How resilient the planet is after a severe and arduous winter.
Renewal is a gift that you could bring to many young mothers and their children striving to restore their broken lives. Struggling to regain a life of confidence and hopes for their futures, these child mothers have found safety, care, food and health with ChildVoice International.
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Please take a moment to consider how you could help these young girls in their journey to a rewarding future with their children. Rekindling feelings of possibility and hopefulness, these girls are looking forward. With your help, they will reawaken the optimism they thought they had lost.
Your gift of $500, $200, $100, $50 or even $20 will assist ChildVoice in providing housing, nutrition, education, and spiritual and emotional growth to children and their families who desperately yearn for ways to cope with the horrifying events that have shaped their lives. With your assistance, ChildVoice can help them. Give these children a voice-a voice that they can pass on to the next generations.
Remember, a monthly gift would help us even more!
Click this Amplified! link for more information.
Thank You
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ChildVoice International has an idea submitted on
www.ideablob.com
to raise money for ChildVoice programs. If the ChildVoice idea receives enough votes and wins the contest, ChildVoice will win $10,000!
By voting for the idea, ChildVoice has a final chance to accumulate the most votes between March 22- 31.
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http://ideablob.com/ideas/4715-Music-Tour-to-Make-a-Difference
Vote with us today!
Thank you for your support of ChildVoice International!
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Check out our website! You can discover ways to get involved, read stories of child mothers and learn about ChildVoice International's work in Uganda. While you are there, browse the gift catalog! You can purchase a gift on behalf of a friend or a loved one and help ChildVoice meet the needs of children in war- affected areas.
Take a look!
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