Connie Frisbee Houde, of Albany, president of Jajja's Kids, visits with young boys who live in a home in Kampala, Uganda purchased through local donations in 2019. Diane Reiner, of Troy, a retired ...

In a two-room shack in the heart of a Kampala slum, a barefoot 5-year-old boy is being taught how to move his pawns. He is one of scores of Ugandan children following in the footsteps of a local girl ...

“You have to fight if you want to survive.” These were the words of 33-year-old Hellen Baleke, a Ugandan woman who is determined to make a difference, according to CNN. Growing up in one of the ...

Meet the young woman who inspired the new Disney film "Queen of Katwe." — -- The first time Phiona Mutesi, 20, saw people playing chess, she thought it was people gambling. “I'd never seen it in ...

KATWE, Uganda -- Seventeen-year-old Richard Buyinza stared at the chessboard in front of him, plotting what he hoped would be his killer move. Around him in the cramped, dimly lit room, more than a ...

Megan Walrod, volunteering with Girl Up Initiative Uganda, walks with Amanicia Spencer (left) and Namboowa Viola of Kampala, Uganda. Her six-month experience in 2017 helping to empower young women and ...

(Reuters) - Nineteen-year-old Lydia Nantale makes her way home from work through the squalor of the Katanga Slum in central Kampala, Uganda's capital. But there's only time for a quick change of ...

KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The bulldozers came after midnight, sirens wailing. Startled from their sleep, slum-dwellers on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala dashed for safety as ...

WOOD RIVER — Jim Folsom believed that he and his family should shorten the space between their words and actions when doing missionary work. “I’m a father of seven and I own a business,” Folsom said. ...

KATWE, Uganda (AP) — In a two-room shack in the heart of a Kampala slum, a barefoot 5-year-old boy is being taught how to move his pawns. He is one of scores of Ugandan children following in the ...