Return to Uganda

I saw the movie War Dance this weekend. This is a beautiful film about children regaining their dignity and hope in the midst of the instability of Northern Uganda. I highly recommend this film.

In 2005, the same year as the music festival featured in War Dance, I had the privilege to go to Uganda and to visit some of the Internally Displaced Peoples' camps close to Lira, where we observed large scale feeding projects, HIV/AIDS ministries, education projects, and a rehabilitation centre for children who had been rescued from the Lords Resistance Army. It was a terrible place, full of people in desperate circumstances, and yet hope and faith shone through. (You'll know what I'm talking about if you watch the film.) Here are a few pictures from that trip (there are more in the Journey gallery on the website.) Look for more in the coming days—I think this will be a multi-part post.