Witness to a Return Home: A Trip to Uganda

In northern Uganda, more than 1.8 million people have been displaced from their homes for as long as 22 years. UUSC has worked for two years there with partner Caritas Pader, piloting a unique program that has empowered thousands of people displaced by war to return to their villages. During Witness to a Return Home: A Trip to Uganda — UUSC's first experiential learning journey to Uganda — participants will learn about UUSC's unique eye-to-eye partnership with Caritas Pader, which has helped thousands of people start rebuilding their villages and their lives after the war.

While UUSC has been working in northern Uganda, the Unitarian Universalist Association has developed a relationship with Rev. Mark Kiyimba, leader of a UU congregation in Kampala, Uganda's capital. Kiyimba runs a 400-student school and 20-child orphanage near Masaka and has been campaigning against Uganda's draconian anti-homosexuality bill. On the second part of the trip, participants will meet with the UU Kampala congregation; talk with Ugandan leaders of the struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's rights; and visit the school and orphanage the Kampala congregation supports.

On this delegation, you will:

• Meet visionary leaders
• Visit internally displaced people and resettled villages in northern Uganda
• See UUSC's eye-to-eye partnership model at work
• Visit important cultural sites and marvel at Uganda's wildlife diversity at Murchison Falls in Kabarega National Park

Learn more about the trip and browse a tentative itinerary — and join us!