Today, April 30, is the last day of the GlobalGiving Open Challenge.

Meet Ayoo Jennifer Akello.

I'm writing to update you on our April fundraising challenge for our project - Provide Vocational Training for Ugandan Women. As I am writing, we have raised $2,160 from 42 donors!

Acen Jacinta, a Project Have Hope member, will attend tailoring school with the funds raised in the April Challenge.

Project Have Hope has embarked upon the Global Giving Open Challenge!

Greetings from Uganda. We are in the first week of March and here with volunteers Mandy Darnell, Emma Sabella, Katie Kaizer and Heidi Jarvis who are here from the United States.  

Wednesday morning, my last day here. I get up bright and early and am in the Quarter by 6:30 to make the most of the unfolding morning light on one of the few rain-free mornings.

The hum of life continues here in the Quarter. The slow, steady motion of a life that continues on, changing little.

It’s good to be back.  That is true.  I’m greeted by, “You are lost” – translation, where have you been?

Where am I?  Suspended mid-air between worlds. 

Generosity. The less you have, the more you give. Or so it is in Acholi land.

"Slowly by slowly," the Acholi phrase that I so often murmur now. A far cry from my initial impatience.

Many people comment to me, "You must feel so proud," referring to the work I do in the Acholi Quarter. That's not how I ever feel. So long as people I know, friends, go to bed hungry, while I'm well fed, I cannot feel "proud." However, today, I had a great feeling of "achievement," I guess that's the best word to describe it.

Many months have gone by since I've posted new entries to the blog. And in those months, much has happened. Since the dreary days of January when I questioned the point of the work I'm doing in Uganda, spring came, and new seeds of hope were planted.