May 16, 2026 | Letters to Friends of UPLIFT
Four weeks ago – on April 16, 2026 – we celebrated a tiny milestone in world history. But it was not so small in the West Nile region of Uganda, where over a thousand participants gathered in Parombo Sub-County (municipality) in Nebbi District to celebrate the...
Feb 28, 2026 | Letters to Friends of UPLIFT
Gifts are presented to the prominent guests from Norway. Sometimes a pot of ground-nut sauce, other times a live chicken. Not always easy to take with you in your backpack or on a plane to the north. These boys have gone a bit out of their way – three storeys high!...
Jan 28, 2026 | Letters to Friends of UPLIFT
“Front row, from left: Hildegunn Kittang, Liv Vitols, Vinita (‘Auntie Vi’) Gilbert, and Edith Senoga. Back row, from left: Gunnar Lange-Nielsen, Pixie MacCallum (Canadian lucky guest), Victoria Thoresen, Arne Kittang, Tom Gossen, and Michael Vitols.” As we have now...
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...
