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 ...

(NEW YORK) — The first time Phiona Mutesi, 20, saw people playing chess, she thought it was people gambling. “I’d never seen it in my life and usually in Uganda, it was always, like, families that are ...

Katwe, Uganda, is one of the poorest places on Earth. Its slums are filled with walls made from cardboard and hanging fabric scraps. There are no roofs and when the rains come, the few possessions ...

Kampala — OVER 150,000 people residing in slums in Mbale Municipality do not have access to pit-latrines. Richard Wandoba, the officer in charge of health and hygiene in the National Slum Dwellers ...

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 ...

Fighting adversity and faced with extreme poverty in the Kampala urban slum of Nakawa, was no deterrent for Rugby Africa Unstoppable ( <a id="d6cb5418-506a-3ab0-a1ec ...

Kampala — Government is considering providing subsidies to the private sector to spur the construction of low-cost housing in both rural and urban areas, in a move aimed at curbing the rapid growth of ...

The sprawling slums of Kampala are a far cry from the glitzy stage of Britain's Got Talent, where a group of Ugandan street kids will be performing in Sunday's grand finale of the hit UK television ...