by Natalie Karneef | Feb 10, 2016
It is 1960 in Uganda right now. At least that’s what it feels like in a bare, windy classroom in Nyakagyezi, a rural village 400 km from Kampala, where volunteers are imparting sexual health information that would be considered basic knowledge, or even archaic...
by Natalie Karneef | Aug 1, 2014
I spent May and June of 2014 in rural Uganda, volunteering as a blogger, videographer and teacher with the Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project, an organization that supports children orphaned by HIV/AIDS, their guardians, and their community. This happened on one of my last...
by Natalie Karneef | Jun 17, 2014
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by Natalie Karneef | May 21, 2014
I’m not at all proud to admit this, but a few days after I landed in Uganda, I was feeling sorry for myself. That’s right: the white girl living in the guesthouse with windows and floors and someone bringing her food – the Canadian without HIV or AIDS and with...
by Natalie Karneef | May 14, 2014
A few hours after the elephant-spotting incident, we pull into what will be my home for the next 2 months. It’s past midnight, and I assume everyone will crawl into the house and fall into bed. It’s pitch black out, so all I can hear is the sound of a million strange...
