6/12/15 I have seen so many parts of Uganda, but today driving to Kihihi from Rukungiri, where we are staying, to visit the Rice Farmer Cooperative I saw perhaps one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. The long dirt road winds through the tall mountains, which are literally covered in banana trees …

6/11/15 I am thrilled to say that today I bought a modem stick and should be able to get online daily (I think…) This morning we travelled from Kabale to Kebisoni for a visit to our Coffee Farmer Cooperative (named KECOFA, Kebisoni Coffee Farmers), consisting of 700 members, both men and women. We met our …

6/10/15 Day 2 Today was extraordinary in several ways. We visited a Batwa group that I had never visited before. It is located on the edge of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in a place that is physically different than the others. We drove until the road ended and continued on foot down a path alongside …

6/9/15 Day 1 These last two days have been spent visiting the Batwa. The drive from Kigali back over the border into western Uganda has beauty that never ceases to amaze. In contrast to the hectic Ugandan streets with cars, trucks and motorcycles vying for space with no regard to laws or rules, the roads …

6/8/15 Yesterday was spent driving seven hours back to the city of Kampala from Lira. We stopped on the way at my favorite spot for tilapia on the shore of Lake Victoria in Jinja, the Kingfisher. I do this every year and I really look forward to it each time. The tilapia at the lake …

6/6/15 This morning we ventured deep into the countryside, far from the town, down a dirt road which turned into a very narrow and bumpy dirt road which turned into a path that was wide enough for us to walk single file through the planted fields. That didn’t stop our fearless driver Ben from maneuvering …

6/12/14 Days like today remind me exactly why we do the work we do. This is an area that was heavily under siege by Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. It is where it all started and where he is from. The people were all forced to leave their land and live in internally …

Jetlag had us up very early, but the sunrise over Kampala is a sight worth getting up for anyway. After breakfast, we packed up the car and headed to Lira in northern Uganda. It took seven hours of dodging in and out of city traffic and cruising along long stretches of rural roads, past sugarcane, …

After arriving late last night, we (my husband Stephen, our friend/filmmaker Rand, Pilot Light Director of Programs Delphin and I) spent our first day in Uganda today recovering from the 24 hour trip here, sleeping late and having lunch at the home of my old friends Dorothy and Fabian. It was a national holiday and …