(Aug. 2006)
It’s a bit to take in going from dirt roads, huts, and people struggling just to survive, to an over-abundance of expensive restaurants, tourists living it up on South Beach, and materialism everywhere. I knew when I came to Miami that the only way I would choose it over Africa would be if [...]
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Posted on September 4th, 2007 by Laurie Cook
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It’s easy to hear about civil war, see horrifying images across the world and just think, “That’s terrible.” I had also heard a lot about the civil war being raged in Northern Uganda by the so called “Lord’s Resistance Army” (*LRA) for the last 19 years. Yet even in central and southern Uganda most people [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2005 by Laurie Cook
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When you start complaining about what you don’t have…these kids are still smiling with AIDS in their family and a two room mud house.
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Posted on December 23rd, 2005 by Laurie Cook
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