On January 14, 2012, enterprising students, small business owners, rural farmers, and Uganda’s technology community - among other panelists and attendees - took part in an annual event called “Villages in Action.”
Last week, Cambodia finished celebrating its third official lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride celebration, a week of movie screenings, workshops and other activities organized by Rainbow Community Kampuchea.
While mental disorders continue to carry a fair degree of stigma in many countries, psychosocial support – as part of the battery of help humanitarian assistance organizations offer – is gaining more awareness.
The sandy track cutting through Mobile outdoor classroom
On the slopes overlooking Kireka, the suburbs of Kampala, hundreds of women and children spend their day working at stone quarries. Whether sick, crippled, young or old, they spend long hours hauling yellow jerry cans of stone from a dusty pit and smashing the large rocks into gravel with crude hammers. One full jerry can fetches 10 cents. At the end of the day, the women have made just enough to buy their children a small portion of dry and starchy cassava for dinner. On slow days, they eat only a bowl of diluted porridge, or nothing. Families at Work in Stone Quarry
Not far from the closely packed mud huts of Pabo camp for internally displaced persons in Teacher Charles Okumu in Lacor
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