From Uganda

Read CIDA intern Colin Kijbis' field diary from Uganda where he sees how children are improving their family's health through a simple water and sanitation education program.

AMREF Canada’s Melanie Sharpe was recently in Kampala for the African Union Summit and found herself reporting on AMREF’s emergency response to the recent attacks in Kampala.

In June 2007 Canadian Opera singer Measha Brueggergosman, AMREF Canada's Goodwill Ambassador, traveled to East Africa to visit AMREF's work. Deep in the war-affected village of Patongo, northern Uganda, Measha found herself surrounded by school children performing the traditional Acholi Bwola dance. This was an opportunity to share her voice and performance skills with children as a form of music therapy. Measha shares her thoughts and feelings of her this life altering experience through a four-minute documentary of her visit, two radio interviews for CBC and her personal diaries (scroll down). Measha's Field Diary.

Namugenyi Kiwanuka returns home to Uganda with her video camera after leaving during the civil war as a child. Find out who she met and hear their stories.

AMREF's communications manager Salims Pirani visits AMREF's groundbreaking Commercial Sex Workers project in Kampala.