by James Harrington | May 30, 2013 | Teams | Travel, Thoughts | Reflections
It happens every time we take teams to Uganda. Two days are spent in an unusual neighborhood of heaven called Kivulu (pronounced chee-voo-loo). Here in this ramshackle community a group of young men- Uncles, who once lived on these streets now sacrifice all they have...
by James Harrington | Apr 28, 2013 | Thoughts | Reflections
I was just listening to a clip from Adolfo Nicolas- a Jesuit Priest. He was talking about the value of Africa to the rest of the world. What caught my eye in particular was something he said about how Asian culture is fixated on method and process – the way, if...
by James Harrington | Jul 5, 2012 | Events, Lutindo | Bridge
It was the end of a long day spent with miracles-in-the-making, street kids in the slum neighborhood of Kivulu, Uganda. Our team had been playing football, trading songs, hacking out broken conversations with young boys (with old eyes) and at the end of it all we...
by James Harrington | Jul 5, 2012 | Events
[vimeo video_id=”45146199″ width=”550″ height=”309″ title=”No” byline=”No” portrait=”No” autoplay=”No” loop=”No” color=”ff9933″] Dateline: Bloomfield NY May...
by James Harrington | May 14, 2012 | Tanks | Locations, Teams | Travel
The steady putter of the old diesel motor purred in the background as Ugandan Water Project Team #11 rode in silence through the fresh morning air of Uganda. We had been in country about a week so the sights blurring past our windows were not shockingly new like they...
