Connie Frisbee Houde, of Albany, president of Jajja's Kids, visits with young boys who live in a home in Kampala, Uganda purchased through local donations in 2019. Diane Reiner, of Troy, a retired ...

Paul Grondahl is the Opalka Endowed Director of the NYS Writers Institute at the University at Albany and a former Times ...

KATWE, Uganda (AP) — In a two-room shack in the heart of a Kampala slum, a barefoot 5-year-old boy is being taught how to move his pawns. He is one of scores of Ugandan children following in the ...

Megan Walrod, volunteering with Girl Up Initiative Uganda, walks with Amanicia Spencer (left) and Namboowa Viola of Kampala, Uganda. Her six-month experience in 2017 helping to empower young women and ...

The Ghetto Kids group is comprised of children from Kampala’s slums. The organization uses music, dance and drama to help meet disadvantaged children and orphans’ basic needs, including attaining a ...

“You have to fight if you want to survive.” These were the words of 33-year-old Hellen Baleke, a Ugandan woman who is determined to make a difference, according to CNN. Growing up in one of the ...

Based on a popular ESPN magazine article selected by Dave Eggers for The Best American Nonrequired Reading and a finalist for a National Magazine Award, the inspiring true story of Phiona Mutesi, a ...

A brick wall at a partly constructed church in Uganda’s capital collapsed onto the congregation Wednesday during an evening thunderstorm, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens more, ...

To say that it takes a village to raise a child is as true in an African village as it is in an American town. Especially if the children are orphans without hope of even a high school education. No ...