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Mourning in Uganda with a change of clothes

Leave a Comment / New Vision, Newspaper columns / April 15, 2013 / 2013, adoption, African culture, Black Monday, childhood, children, corruption, Froese family, orphanages, orphans, poverty, Ugandan orphans / 3 minutes of reading

(The New Vision Online – Monday, April 15, 2013)

JINJA, UGANDA ✦ It’s Monday morning and I sit in a Jinja café wearing a bright tie, blue shirt, navy blazer and brown pants, but I’m wishing I could start the day over and wear black from my neck to my feet, everything as black as the black in Uganda’s flag.

This, as I read the latest news report of Black Monday, the growing citizens campaign pointing out what we already know, that Ugandans need to mourn, to grieve, to be saddened for their deepening losses, losses from thefts of public funds that are key to the wellbeing of this nation.

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Once, there was a poor, young girl …

2 Comments / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns, Popular / December 15, 2012 / 2012, African culture, childhood, children, Christianity, Christmas, Froese biography, Jesus Christ, Mary, poverty, spirituality, suffering, Women's rights / 4 minutes of reading

KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ Once there was a little Ugandan girl who loved school.

The girl, who had been an orphan when she was younger, loved learning new things and making new friends and pretty well everything about it, especially the stories.

Maybe she loved school all the more because of her years as an orphan, which started in a hospital in Mbarara, in western Uganda, where she was left abandoned when she was barely larger than a cat.

There she was given all she ever owned, her name, Hannah.

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Say ‘Yes’ to inspiring others

Leave a Comment / Christian Week, Newspaper columns / December 1, 2012 / 2012, childhood, children, Christianity, Christmas, girls' education, human rights, Malala Yousufzai, Mary, poverty, Women's rights, youth / 3 minutes of reading

We know little about them, these grandparents—if they came to babysit on Friday nights or if they maybe played checkers with the curly-haired, laughing boy while he grew in wisdom and stature.

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Africa should be a safe haven for children

Leave a Comment / New Vision, Newspaper columns / December 23, 2011 / 2011, child sacrifice, children / 3 minutes of reading

So it is Christmas, a good time to give thanks for the past year, especially for our children.

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Power of prayer challenges the impossible

Leave a Comment / Christian Week, Newspaper columns / December 1, 2011 / 2011, child sacrifice, children, Kienen Hebert, prayer / 4 minutes of reading

(Christian Week – December 2011)

KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ Remember Kienan Hebert, the three-year-old in one of Canada’s biggest feel-good stories of 2011? Kienan was abducted from his B.C. home and later returned by, of all people, his abductor.

Twitter and Facebook lit up. Christians proclaimed God is alive and well and listening to prayer.

One wrote the Toronto Star online: “To those who aren’t aware that God answers prayer, I show you the return of Kienan Hebert. Now if we prayed on an ongoing basis for the protection of children and for those disturbed in mind and spirit, abductions like this would rarely occur.”

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