Monday Sep 06

Links

A handful of links to organizations and websites that i am quite fond of both locally and in Uganda. 

Website

Synopsis

Terry Chemij

Personal Website for Terry Chemij: My friend and colleague in Pader, Uganda.

Save The Mothers

Save the Mothers is an international organization committed to partnerships that promote the health and dignity of mothers and children in developing countries through education with a whole-person approach. Started by Dr. Jean Chamberlain. Check out this website and you will be shocked to hear some of the statistics on maternal morbidity. 

Jeannie Annan 

Jeannie Annan is the director of Research and Evaluation for the International Rescue Committee and a visiting scientist at the Harvard school of Public Health. If you want to learn more about the issues plaguing Northern Uganda visit her website and read some of her papers on the LRA co-written with Christopher Blattman. 

Invisible Children 

Motivated by the unseen war in Northern Uganda, Invisible Children was created by three young filmmakers with a singular mission: To use the power of stories to change lives around the world.  

Phillips Innovations 

A business website for the incredibly talented and generous David Timothy Phillips. He is the designer of this website and a personal friend of whom I am extremely thankful. Thank you DP!

Sanctuary Toronto 

Sanctuary is a Christian charitable organization that seeks to establish and develop holistic, inclusive and health community. They welcome people who have, for the most part, known only rejection and abuse. "At Sanctuary, we are becoming a healthy community where people who are poor or excluded are particularly valued. This community is an expression of the good embodied in Jesus Christ."

Emmanuel International 

Emmanuel Relief & Rehabilitation International is an international, interdenominational, evangelical agency which assists communities worldwide through the agency of their local churches to meet the needs of the poor. 

Yonge St. Mission 

Yonge Street Mission is called to demonstrate God’s love, peace and justice to people living in economic, social and spiritual poverty in Toronto.

Empire Remixed

Rethinking Everything... Interesting articles by Brian Walsh (activist theologian and the CRC Campus Minister at the University of Toronto) and other remarkable writers on stimulating topics. 

Athletes In Action

Athletes in Action was founded in 1966 by David Hannah, who desired to build on society's great love of sports and utilize the platform given to the athletes to reach the world for Jesus Christ. 

 

A taste of the Acholi Courtship dance. Try and find the odd one out...  Hint: A goofy, tall, white kid brutally botching the dance! haha 

 

For those who haven't yet seen a glimpse of my sisters spectacular day. Twins marrying brothers in a double wedding August 15, 2009.

 

 

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BARRICADE - A song that I wrote and recorded recently