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Recycled Amusement: A Ugandan Playground of Water Bottles

Eco-artist Ruganzu Bruno Tusingwire will use a prize from TED to create a water-bottle playground in Kampala, Uganda

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Uniting World Cultures Through Children's Literature

Teach Twice educates children and their communities through stories and the exchange of culture.

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Joseph Kony and the Moral Ambiguity of the Modern World

The film everyone's talking about reminds us that hardly anything is black and white anymore.

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Don't Reduce Uganda to a Meme

Shouldn’t I be happy the Kony 2012 campaign has finally drawn U.S. attention to a long-running conflict in my ancestral home? Actually, I'm angry.

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'There's a Rabid Hunger to Criticize': A 'Kony 2012' Creator Defends the Film A 'Kony 2012' Creator Defends the Film

The most popular internet video in years has sparked tears and controversy. We talked to one guy who started the madness.

Welcome to Kawempe: Photos of Social Enterprise in Uganda

Visit Kawempe, a slum outside of Kampala, Uganda, where social enterprise is providing economic opportunity and fighting disease.

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The Avon of Africa: How Micro-Entrepreneurs Can Fight Poverty

Joy Twinomusasizi found dignity, income and the chance to help her community thanks to an organization that supports micro-entrepreneurs.

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UN Comes Out for Gay Rights for the First Time in History

Bigots are a dying breed: The United Nations has come out for gay rights for the fist time in its nearly 70-year history.

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Question Box: Bringing the Power of the Internet to People Without Computers Question Box: Bringing the Power of the Internet to People Without Computers

Rose Shuman is bringing the life-saving value of a fast Google-type search to even the most remote parts of the globe.

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"I Was Itching Like a Crackhead": Study Finds College Students Addicted to Media

Students across the globe can't function without media for even 24 hours without experiencing addiction-like withdrawal symptoms.

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Teach a Man to Make Drugs: Pharmaceutical Companies Invest in African Generic Drug Plant

An $80 million investment in Africa producing generic drugs will make treatment more widely available.

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Kitintale: Yann Gross's Vision of Skateboarding in Uganda

Last year, we ran a Picture Show of Yann Gross's photographs of Uganda's only skate park. If you liked that, you should check out this trailer...

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Help Support Invisible Children: Bring The Polyphonic Spree to Uganda

In 2003, a small team of Southern California filmmakers made a gritty documentary exposing the chilling reality of the child soldier epidemic...

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Anti-gay Advocates Confused When Anti-gay Rhetoric Taken Seriously

In Uganda, the government is contemplating a law that would punish homosexuality with death. Apparently, this law was inspired by three American...

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Who Should Feed Hungry School Kids?

This is a question being raised in Uganda right now, where close to a million schoolkids are literally starving, and where the teachers' union is...