Oct 22, 2025 | Letters to Friends of UPLIFT
In a development context, we could rightly say that our small project is ‘a drop in the ocean’. But a mystic would argue that one can see the ocean in the drop. As in this letter, one may see the universal in the specific. So, what are we talking about? Yes, the...
Mar 20, 2025 | Letters to Friends of UPLIFT
For those of us on the outside, if we read the recent annual report from UPLIFT to Fokus (as a ‘sponsor’), there is reason to share this hope. We’ve referred to the UPLIFT program as a sunshine story. Locally defined needs, a simple pedagogical...
Oct 12, 2024 | Letters to Friends of UPLIFT
To combat poverty is the overall goal of UPLIFT’s focus on literacy training and women’s health. In the midst of the world’s misery, where even we in the periphery are bombarded daily – by world news in real time – we mustn’t forget the bright spots and...
Apr 23, 2024 | Letters to Friends of UPLIFT
Having entered year # 2 ! A week from now, the big UPLIFT family will gather for the annual Graduation Ceremony – the highlight of the year. Little more than a year ago, Friends of UPLIFT received the message from FOKUS that Norad had accepted our application for...
Oct 5, 2023 | Letters to Friends of UPLIFT
Dear friends, Autumn has come to Norway and ‘the short rains’ to West Nile. Since spring/ ‘long rains’ and early April UPLIFT Graduation, with the kick-off of the Norad/FOKUS funded UPLIFT Women in West Nile project, things have been happening! It is high time for an...
Dec 31, 2022 | Letters to Friends of UPLIFT
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