Uganda Night Commuters -- Nightline -- August 23

If you missed Nightline on ABC Tuesday night at 11:30pm -- I highly recommend that you go to www.abc.com where you can watch the presentation. (For those of you who have Comcast as your internet provider, you can also go to comcast.net and click on "The Fan" where they have an archive of the news presentations) Search for "Cheadle".

Dan Cheadle (who many of you know as portraying Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda) filmed a special documentary news program for Nightline in Uganda earlier this month. Traveling with his family, he visited the Northern Ugandan town of Gulu -- where thousands and thousands of "night commuters" come every night-- aka, small children who are trying to avoid being kidnapped and forced into being child soldiers. It is a powerful presentation and it highlights the work of World Vision who helps former child soldiers overcome the psychological damage and atrocities that have happened to them.

As hard as it is to watch, the more we are aware of what is happeneing there, the more we can do. Dateline NBC also focused on this same issue in its show on Sunday night. For those of you who want to know more, here is a link to a photo essay by Human Rights Watch.
http://hrw.org/photos/2005/uganda/ . Also on the Human Rights Watch website is information on what you can do. Also, check out World Vision's work in Uganda.