Conflict
Conflict has riveted our attention, commanded our news outlets, thrust its way into our conversations, confused and divided us on an international, national, local, and personal level. It’s front and […]
Category Archives: ASAH School for Orphaned Girls
A Little of the White Wipes Off
A Lost Boy of Sudan, Joseph Akol Makeer, arrived in my home town of Fargo, North Dakota in 2003. Orphaned by the war in southern Sudan, Joseph took over the task […]
Augusta
It was a big concern for our staff. What if an ASAH girl becomes pregnant? In school and outside of school, our girls have been taught about pregnancy and sexually […]
Spending Millions in Kampala
Ajah and I sent most of the supplies in a large Land Cruiser after two days of shopping in Kampala. We shopped in box stores where you can buy anything […]
Routines
Watching the ASAH girls write letters to their sponsors and having them stand in line to read them aloud to me is one of the loveliest part of my routine when […]
The Healing Begins
When the guard opens the gate to the new ASAH compound in Moyo, Uganda, and we step out of the vehicle, the ASAH girls move like one body, snaking toward […]
Robert Feder Humanitarian Award
“When I first visited South Sudan, I didn’t know that all I had done before – my education, my work, my parenting, my creativity – was preparing me for the […]
