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 […]
Tag Archives: Duk Payuel
Please help me wish Deb Dawson a Happy 60th Birthday
I met Deb at the first ASAH meeting in July of 2007, although we weren’t an organization with a name, then. She knew exactly what we needed to do: go […]
Homesick
Thirty-three orphaned girls dressed in ASAH school uniforms greeted us at the airstrip when we arrived May 20. A few days later we met with the girl who will be […]
In Memory of John (Jef) Foss
Joseph Akol Makeer, the Fargo Lost Boy whose dream of helping orphans in his home village of Duk Payuel, inspired the ASAH School for Orphaned Girls, paid for a bull […]
Learning Something Every Day
I know only enough Dinka to please elders and others by greeting them in their language. I get the greeting words mixed up, so I’m doing my homework now before […]
African Soul, American Heart 