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They call him Pastor Amon. He’s 13 years old and the “spiritual leader” at Compassion child development center UG561 in the heart of the Katwe slum in Kampala, Uganda. Today this pint-sized preacher stepped on stage to say thank you. And I so wished you were there. Because he wasn’t… Read More
This won’t be an easy post to read. It’s even harder to write. Jeff and I walked from the church… through crowds of cute… beside and across streams flowing with more waste than water… through the narrow passages of the Katwe slum… to Sarah’s house. Last door on the right.… Read More
Dad’s can turn garbage into a soccer ball. Dirt into breakfast, lunch and dinner. And boys and girls into men and women. Richard is Colline’s uncle, but every bit her dad (I wrote yesterday about how she went from slave to daughter.) He wakes her early for chores because “this… Read More
It was thirst that brought them out of hiding. Creeping from the bush, back to their village in search of water. At the hottest point of the day, in the hottest season of the year, Richard dabs the sweat from his forehead and tells the story. And I can see… Read More
Americans are a predictable species. Plop one of us down in a city dump on the other side of the world and the same thing will happen every time. Eyebrows will knit together in a sure sign of pity. Top lip will contort in disgust at the smell. As birds… Read More
Watching the family across the room at the Mexican restaurant, I marveled at how much we Americans have devolved in my lifetime. Two grade school children staring at iPads reached for chips, blindly dipping them in bowls of salsa. A teen shielded by oversized headphones scrolled through an iPod playlist.… Read More
Shaun Groves