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For more than 30 years Carol Adams has fed, housed, educated and cared for orphans and vulnerable children in Fort Portal in Western Uganda. Many of the children were weakened by the HIV virus but were supported for two decades by anti-viral drugs provided by USAID and its PEPFAR program.

But those programs have been frozen by President Trump, putting the lives of millions in East Africa and around the world in grave danger. 

I recently spoke with Carol about her YesUganda.org program and the impact of the USAID freeze.

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Music by Dale Enstrom

Moses Kyarisima is a former Community Health Officer at the Bwindi Community Hospital in SW Uganda. Nowadays he’s a medical entrepreneur, delivering mobile obstetric and other medical scans by motorcycle to pregnant women and others.

I was in Uganda recently and sat down with Moses to talk about how he identified and met a need to deliver medical care to women in the villages, far from the city. I also learned how this self-made man paid for his education, from primary school to university level. 

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Pastor John Ramey calls Mother Theresa one of his heroes. Ramey is president of Aslan Child Rescue Ministries and travels the world to support partners on the ground in difficult and far off places. Like the saintly Mother Theresa, Pastor Ramey finds joy in being alongside struggling mission workers, women and children bringing relief in the form of supplies or prayer support.

I recently had a conversation with John and we talked about the breakthrough work he and his partners have undertaken in Ethiopia.

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Maker Marial is a former Lost Boy of Sudan who came of age during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1987-2005). His family and village were attacked, friends and relatives killed…and he began a years-long process  to rebuild his shattered life.

He has written a memoir of his experience. It is shocking, it is amazing and wonderful. Listen as he talks about the incredible events in his life and how relationships helped open doors.

Read his memoir, Coming Home on a Known Road: A Sudanese Refugee's Journey from War to Progress available on Amazon.com and IngramSpark.com.

Music composed by Dale Enstrom

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The coffee industry is booming in Uganda and elsewhere in East Africa. Farmers in Uganda are turning to a dynamic cash crop that is gaining attention worldwide. You can call it "black gold."

Joshua Rukundo is executive director of Kigezi Coffee Development Academy. He organizes coffee farmers in Southwest Uganda to help increase production and quality of Ugandan coffee. 

In our conversation he tells us how Ugandan coffee has become a crop with national strategic importance.

Music composed by Dale Enstrom

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Daisy Masika is a teacher and a mother of five. Her life and the lives of her children were shattered when their husband and father, Charles, was murdered in 2019. She continues to work but the needs of the family are overwhelming this now-single mother. Listen to her story of strength and perseverance in this podcast. 

Help Daisy honor her fallen husband by supporting the education of their children. A GoFundMe page for the children's school fees has been set up.  Please support and be generous if you can. Thank you.

You can help Daisy's children achieve their education.
Link: https://gofund.me/8003340c

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Music by Dale Enstrom

Using golf to transform lives, Isaiah Mwesige manages Afriyea, a youth-led organization that promotes  environmental campaigns and smart urban farming.


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The coronavirus pandemic continues to make lives miserable for people around the world. In Uganda, a new lockdown has again impacted livelihoods. How soon before a full recovery is underway?

In this podcast, Patrick returns to Walter Wwesisgye, a health reporter with NTV Uganda, a leading TV broadcast channel, for an update on  how the East African nation is coping with coronavirus.

Thanks for listening.

Patrick Hill
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You can help support women, orphans and vulnerable children in Uganda through a tax-deductible donation. Go to our teaminfaith.org donation page.

Music composed by Dale Enstrom.

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Freelance journalist Wendee Nicole first visited Uganda to research the mountain gorilla. What happened next changed her life.   

Listen to how Redemption Song Foundation was founded to help transform the lives of the Batwa Pygmies.

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Friends of Ruwenzori has supported the work of the Kitojo Integrated Development Association, or KIDA, in Western Uganda since 2004. KIDA was organized to bring HIV prevention, health care and education closer to villages and parishes in Kabarole District. 

Today KIDA operates a private hospital with a new children's work and a vocational school to help young people develop job skills.

In this podcast Patrick talks with Kristen Brock, executive director of Friends of Ruwenzori about KIDA's challenges and successes.  

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Music by Dale Enstrom