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WARNING: This story retells violent incidents which some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion advised. By the time he was sixteen, he was already raping, maiming and killing as a child soldier in the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel terror group in northern Uganda headed by the maniacal Joseph Kony. We’ll call him Jeffrey. To [...]

On Friday, October 14th, President Obama announced that about 100 U.S. troops would be sent to Africa to help hunt down leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA, led by Joseph Kony, is a religious and military group operating in northern Uganda and southern Sudan since 1987. Between 1987 and 2007 the LRA led [...]

For 9-year-old Martha Mukebezi, going to school and playing outside with other children seemed like an impossible dream. At an early age, Martha’s mother and father were confined to their beds due to HIV/AIDS and Martha was forced to drop out of school to care for her five younger brothers and sisters. With the mounting [...]

Last week, World Orphans holistic care team travelled to Kenya where pastors from projects in Uganda and Nairobi gathered to learn more about emotional care for children. The holistic-care team, which focuses on helping caretakers meet the emotional, physical, spiritual and mental needs of children, spent the last few months developing emotional care materials under [...]

In less than 24 hours, World Orphans staffers Mark and Julie Gumm raised enough money to send 20 Ugandan children to school. They didn’t host a formal dinner or a WO video viewing, they created a fundraising campaign on the MyWorldOrphans site, used their blogs  as a marketing tool,  and committed their own resources to [...]

A recent terrorist attack in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, killed 76 and left the rest of the nation in fear. Two bombs exploded at a rugby club where people of all nationalities gathered to watch the World Cup and anther bomb was targeted at an Ethiopian restaurant. The July 11 attack was traced [...]

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