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Game Changers

As of June 10th Entusi is Ugandan run and operated!  Students from the University of Colorado Denver and Colorado Mountain College, along with the Hybls and Myers and a delegation from Creighton University, Western Dairy Association and the University of Denver celebrated Regan as this 36-year father of two now makes the decisions for a team of 18 proud men and women in East Africa who are changing the game and transforming the community at Lake Bunyonyi. 

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Local entrepreneurial students visit Africa

Five local students from Denver School of Science and Technology just returned from a powerful trip to Uganda and Rwanda.  It was part of the school's social entrepreneurship program, to allow the students to engage in real, meaningful work and learn more about becoming leaders.

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Taking education beyond the classroom
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Taking education beyond the classroom

When high-school students Jack Virnich and Jennifer Arreola-Soria go on stage in April to talk about their travels to Japan and China last year, they likely won’t be reading a laundry list of museums they visited or boat rides they took. They did do those things – and thoroughly enjoyed them.

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An Update from Florence Ozor

The country is gearing towards the February 14 general elections (this seem to be the only thing of interest of the current president who is hell bent on coming back) and our hope truly lies in the change of government. We are hoping this happens without violence.

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Five unforgettable ways to spend $500 in 2015

Whether the money comes via a Christmas bonus, a tax refund, a gift or just an extra paycheck from one of those wonderful five-Friday months (such as January 2015), the idea of spending a small windfall can lead to paralyzing indecision. Especially when you’ve been completely focused on other people’s gifts.

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Jamie Van Leeuwen helps with policy change in Colorado and Africa

“It was somewhere in Africa, the one time I didn’t go with him, and he calls me in the middle of the night to say he’s on a bus in the middle of an infectious-disease zone, and the bus just slid off the road,” said Birch, executive director of Colorado’s health care policy and financing department.

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Emmanuel in a World of Change

Maternal mortality is changing.  While emerging markets and improving public health is creating more opportunities for the people of Uganda and maternal mortality is actually the lowest in the region, the risk of either mother or child or both dying in childbirth remains outrageously and unacceptably high.  Just ask Emmanuel.

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