Blog Updates and inspiration

During the period when LRA attacks were still intense in northern Uganda, many businesses came to a standstill. Ayen Rose’s business that she had started between 1999 and 2000 to raise pigs was among the unlucky businesses that did not survive the war. Forced to resettle in one of the Internal Displacement Camps, Ayen Rose […]

The Silver Series love keeps shining. At the end of July, we premiered our exclusive performance from Middle Brother, filmed at SXSW in 2011.  Today, we debut an acoustic video of musician J Irvin Dally to raise awareness about the longest running war in Africa. If we trespassed to film this video inside an empty […]

As a 90’s kid who grew up in the middle of the technology and internet boom, I pictured a futuristic adulthood world with flying cars, robot helpers and hologram phone calls. With all the cool gadgets we have these days, giving up my walkman for a CD player then an iPod doesn’t really seem like […]

If you asked our staff to name the things they love, I guarantee that somewhere in the top five would be art and books. And if there was ever a way to utilize those two things together, we would all simply overdose on excitement. Get ready for all the overdosing. The folks at Jardin de la […]

Apollo 13 was one of those movies. When I was seven years old, my mother took me to see it at a Sunday matinee. And I was hooked. I just knew – when I grew up, I’d be an astronaut. The movie held that much power for me. While pursuing a career in the space industry […]

Sometimes you’re inspired to do something. Something great, or memorable, or something that really matters in the grand scheme of things. DoSomething.org encourages the youth of today to find a cause, believe in it, and by golly, do something about it. They launch a new national campaign almost every week, like The Bully Project and […]

The first team from Africa to compete in the Little League World Series will go home with a win. After Uganda lost to Panama in its opening game Friday night, the Ugandan team went on to defeat Oregon, 3-2, in its consolation game to earn the first Little League World Series victory for an African […]

In Edinburgh, Scotland, hundreds of walkers and runners—clad in LED suits and carrying musical glowsticks—came together around Arthur’s Seat last week to form a massive light show called “Speed of Light.” Hey, we can get behind a public art piece that demonstrates the beauty of illuminating darkness. —Rachel (Photo Credit: Dan Kitwood)

Standing for something is one thing but acting on it is a whole different challenge. I’m not one to argue that technology and social media have created a media overload, but with the same power it has to clutter our computer screens, it can easily be used to generate ideas. For instance, prior to Mexico’s […]

“I remember when I was very little my sister used to talk, but when she got sick she stopped talking and now she only uses signs to communicate,” six-year-old Doreen recalls growing up with her older sister, Winnie, who has nodding syndrome. Nodding syndrome, characterized by seizures, mental retardation and stunted growth, has affected more […]