by Marina Cull | Mar 18, 2020 | Thoughts | Reflections
Here’s the scenario: The Ugandan Water Project has just restored a broken borehole that had been sitting idle for over 5 years. The pipes had long since rusted and the community had been unable to mobilize sufficient funds for the costly repair. The project’s...
by Megan_B | Nov 22, 2017 | Project Sponsorship, Tanks | Locations, Thoughts | Reflections
On the outskirts of Kampala in the village of Kkona sits His Grace Infant & Primary School. The school yard is clean, bright with flowers and a sparse but lovingly-used swingset. Here, 13 year old Nicole spends her days striving for an education. Until the end...
by Megan_B | Jul 19, 2016 | Staff, Thoughts | Reflections
It wasn’t all that long ago that stacks of paper were piling up here in the Ugandan Water Project office. By the ream, our staff shuffled and sorted forms transported to Rochester, NY all the way from Kampala, Uganda. We piled and unpiled. We filed and un-filed. In...
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,...
