uganda

A young girl's dream of attending school in her small Ugandan village is fulfilled after her family is given an income-producing goat.

Recounts the experiences of Grace Akallo, who was forced to enter into the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda when she was only fifteen year old and endured savagery, starvation, and abuse with only her faith to help her.

A frog repays Wanyana's kindness by helping her pick the right man to be her husband.

Katie Davis traveled to Uganda for a short mission trip over the Christmas break of her senior year in high school. She found herself so moved by the Ugandan people and their needs that she knew it was her calling to return to care for them. She is now in the process of adopting thirteen children there, and has established the ministry, Amazima, that cares for hundreds more. Here, she shares her story.

Discusses the stories of various children who were kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group in northern Uganda, trained to be killers, and forced to commit savage acts as soldiers.

Describes the experiences of children kidnapped into service for the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, in which boys are required to complete brutal initiations--murdering their parents, friends, and relatives--and girls are forced into sexual slavery and labor.

After all the other animals unsuccessfully try to reach water deep beneath the ground, Gecko takes a turn. Despite the other animals' leers about his small size, Gecko proves his determination by not giving up.

Presents a collection of eight folk tales in which animals are the protagonists.