by Megan_B | May 3, 2016 | Staff, Thoughts | Reflections
Nante Doroth, affectionately known as Dorothy to most of the UWP staff, works as our Office Secretary in our Ugandan office. Her faithful dedication to our organization is one we don’t take lightly, so we wanted to share a piece of her story with you. Meet...
by Megan_B | Sep 1, 2015 | Thoughts | Reflections
In international development, there is a romanticism that comes with working in the field. There’s satisfaction in waking up to a golden African sunrise, in beholding the beautiful red dirt roads of Uganda. As a part of Team #18 in May 2014, I experienced life in...
by Megan_B | Oct 8, 2013 | Teams | Travel, Thoughts | Reflections
Eternal Memory (That we might never forget) My pretentiously sheltered experience is unable to escape the wrenching reality transposed before me through the medium of their iron-clad hearts, the bitter human precipitation that has engraved its memory upon their flesh,...
by Megan_B | Aug 28, 2013 | Events, Tanks | Locations, Teams | Travel, Thoughts | Reflections
Why go? Sixteen pairs of feet connected with Ugandan dirt on July 30th, 2013, anticipating experiences as part of Ugandan Water Project’s Team #16, unaware of just how deep that dirt would sink. No hammers, no shovels; just 5 senses and eager hearts. One of the...
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...
