As a journalist I’m used to working long days. Adrenaline keeps you in the game for 16 to 20 hours during breaking news and disaster coverage. You sleep for three hours then you’re back at it. But nothing prepared me for how exhausted I would be after just a couple of hours of listening to [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Uganda’s Child Soldiers: In Their Own Words
Posted: September 28, 2010 in Africa, Children, Education, Global Poverty, Human Rights, Inspiration, Law and Order, Media, Natural Disasters, News, News and Views, Parenting, Philanthropy, Politics, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Television, Travel, Violence, War, WomenTags: Child Soldiers, Children of War Rehabilitation Center, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gulu, HDNet, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, NGO, Orum, Otuke, Sudan, Uganda, World Report, World Vision, Worldvision
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Acid Attacks Hit Home
Posted: September 6, 2010 in Acid Attacks, Africa, Crime, Health Care, Human Rights, India, Inspiration, Law and Order, Media, Middle East, News, News and Views, Poverty, Random Thoughts, School Violence, Television, Terrorism, Travel, Violence, WomenTags: Acid Attacks, Arizona, HDNet, Juliette, kampala, Oregon, Uganda, World Report
NOTE: THE ACID ATTACK IN OREGON TURNED OUT TO BE A SELF-INFLICTED HOAX. In recent days there have been two brutal acid attacks against women in the United States, one in Oregon and one in Arizona. Many of you have read the story I wrote about a courageous acid attack victim from Kampala, Uganda named Juliette [...]
