As is the case for all developing countries, Ugandan is a cash-driven society. The lack of widespread use of credit cards creates numerous challenges for all sectors of society, including the judiciary. In the United States, the court system can purchase supplies and pay all sorts of suppliers and vendors via government credit cards and/or […]
Lots of chicks. Lots and lots of chicks. Overrunning the house. They barely sleep. All they do is eat. And they are pooping everywhere. Next week, they will be kicked out of the house and made to fend for themselves in the small barn behind the house. Last week, Henry’s family had 240 three-day-old chickens […]
On Friday afternoon, my driver (Sherlock) and I went to pick up the letter that would supposedly say I was allowed to drive the government car I had been carried around in for the past four weeks. But when I opened the letter, the first thing I saw was my score – 68 of 100: […]
The Carrie Underwood song after which this post is named takes on added significance when living in Africa. There have already been many instances in the four short weeks we have been here where we have found ourselves seeking the sort of surrender this song implies. But the reason for the title of this post […]
As I indicated in my previous post, Friday was an intense and suspenseful day. Fortunately, it ended well. As I have written about previously, the Ugandan court of appeals issued a landmark decision about ten days ago that affirms the power of the Family Division of the High Court to grant legal guardianship to non-citizens […]
Today was probably the most suspenseful and intense day yet. I will need to wait until next week to publicly discuss most of what happened today, but suffice it to say that there were more tears of joy, and more evidence of God’s presence moving here in Uganda. And this was also the same day […]
Last night, Henry and I decided that he would make the trip from Hoima to Kampala this morning so we could attempt to make further progress on getting him admitted to his dream school. While this was Henry’s second visit to Kampala (he came on a school field trip about six years ago), the day […]
Today was a day I have been anticipating for nearly two months, and it went even better than I could have hoped. Henry met us at our hotel at 7:15 a.m. and rode with us to his church, which actually started with a time of worship at 7:00 a.m. When we walked in, the place […]
We left Kampala on Saturday morning at 8:00 a.m. planning to make the four-hour journey to Hoima where we would meet up with Henry. The rest of my family has never met Henry or his family, though they have spoken to each other via Skype. We realized early on in the day that things were […]
I arrived at 8:45 a.m. for the 9:30 a.m. announcement of the appellate decision in the Ribbens legal guardianship appeal. They had been denied legal guardianship at the trial court over sweet little 20-month-old Nya not because they were not perfectly fit parents (they are), and not because Nya is not an abandoned child (she […]
