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'What Kony and the LRA did to our family'
Published on 07 May 2013
By Lalam Grace, mother and grandmother, Northern Uganda
My name is Lalam Grace. Before the LRA war, our lives were good. The community was happy and we were peaceful. My husband and first-born son were alive. We were able to do business and had enough money. We had over 50 cows. We also had goats and sheep. They were all killed in the war; it impacted our lives tremendously. You can see the way we are now...
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Julie Goodwin in Uganda: seeing ChildFund's work in action
Published on 25 February 2013
On day 4 of Julie Goodwin's African adventure, she and husband Mick travel to rural Mbale. Here, they visit a local community and see ChildFund in action - improving nutrition, providing access to education and monitoring child health. It is also a day of eating, dancing and lots of smiles!
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What a difference a decade can make
Published on 11 January 2013
FromBy Trang Nguyen Thi Kieu, Communications Coordinator, ChildFund Vietnam
Cao Bang is a mountainous province in the northeast of Vietnam – about 300km away from my city, Hanoi. It doesn’t sound far but on this day, it takes us eight hours to drive there, partly due to the muddy mountain pass after such heavy rain...
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Visiting the Horn of Africa - one year on
Published on 20 July 2012
By Jacqui Ooi, Senior Communications Officer, ChildFund Australia
Living in Australia, it’s easy to feel disconnected from other parts of the world. Even for those of us working at the ChildFund office in Sydney, while you know you’re part of an organisation doing really great work, it’s not always easy to understand how your part in it is helping and what it actually means to the children and families who are benefiting...
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The beauty and struggles of rural Ethiopia
Published on 27 June 2012
By Jacqui Ooi, Senior Communications Officer, ChildFund Australia
Travelling along the bumpy dirt road out to the villages of Siraro district in Ethiopia, the first thing you notice is how beautiful the landscape is – rolling fields dotted with grass-roofed mud huts, pairs of oxen moving slowly side by side ploughing fields and passing donkeys transporting bundles of firewood and jerry cans of water...
