In 1995, two friends in Oregon created International Talk Like a Pirate Day. They wanted to mock the epidemic of commemorating people, things and events on special days. They were also taking aim at the folks who invent these celebrations in order to sell greetings cards, flowers and boxes of chocolates. Three decades later, Talk Like a […]

I’m running the London Marathon in April 2026 for Network for Africa – a challenge I’m both excited and slightly terrified to take on! But behind the miles and training runs is something far more meaningful: the opportunity to support communities in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. Last November, I visited Sierra Leone – […]

It was 2006 when Network for Africa first dipped its toe in the challenging waters of northern Uganda. Patongo was the last place to be occupied by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a paranoid and vengeful militia. The LRA had just withdrawn over the border to Sudan, and the conflict felt very real and too […]