YCFP Con't. . .

Here are two of the team members. These young people really grabbed hold of this opportunity to help their people and change their future.
Funding for equipment (MDD and sports) have helped them get into the lives of the people in communities. Last year they traveled to Kampala (in the South) to talk to students from one of the largest school.
They talked about their future as Ugandans and their desire to live in a peaceful, to create a thriving country.
The students in Kampala responded VERY well and quite emotionally as they heard about the trials under which the Acholi people (the people standing in front of them) have endured over their short life time.
Most recently, the YCFP have been given credit to purchase a few pigs so that they can breed and turn a profit to keep filling the funding-well for their programs. They very happily showed us their nice clean, pink piglets. They’re a very strong team that seem to work very well together.
In Uganda (perhaps Africa) there’s a saying about “going to the bush.” It basically means become a rebel group in order to use armed conflict to bring about one’s own political ideals.
Perhaps this group can forever change the phrase “going to the bush” to become “rise up from the bush” to become a country united between south and north.
Just as Uganda leads the way in low HIV/AIDS rates, perhaps she can lead Africa in the way of peace.