I have returned safely to Addis! I didn't get to travel back until late on Sunday, but I made it in one piece.

The conference, all I want to include in this journal is the performance by the White Angels choir, they were absolutely moving. Until their performance, I had never cried at any such event, but I was brought to tears three separate times during their singing and dancing.

The White Angels are a group of vulnerable children from 'the bush' in Uganda. Many of whom are orphans. Children as young as 6 years old sang solos while dancing and performing in front of 450 professionals about how they were 'grateful for their education' and 'the miracle of life.' That 'we are beautiful' and 'we can make a difference.' If one does not know Ugandan culture, they are a people of beautiful smiles and enormous hearts, they danced and played the drums like I have never seen before. When you have a 6 year old little orphan girl performing and singing at the top of her lungs about how grateful she is to be living and how lucky she is to attend school you really start to think about all that we take for granted.

Education. Safe water. Food three times a day. Malaria free environment. Immunizations. Playgrounds and sports teams for our children. Family. Friends. Shelter. Parents. Children. Grandparents. Career. Freedom of speech. Freedom to think. Access to information. Health. Love. Equality. Alsolutely everything in our lives. There is no limit to what we need to be grateful for. And therefore, what we should help others gain access to.

Since I am on the topic of Uganda. I beg you to visit www.invisiblechildren.org and try to get involved with their campaign in northern Uganda where 15,000 children every night walk miles to Gulu, a town, so they will not be captured in the middle of the night by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced into fighting (the boys) and sexual slavery (girls as young as five). These children are drugged and brain washed to commit unimaginable atrocities, sometimes to their own families to save their own lives-killing his mother and infant brother/sister with a meshete. Imagine. 15,000 children walking for hours every night and then waking at dawn to return home for the daylight hours to help their families, if they have one, earn a living, as schools have been destroyed by the 20 years long war which is now stalled in peace talks in Southern Sudan.

These children need rehabilitation and education. Children are resilient beings, but there is a limitation to their resilence. They will need years of counselling, something that is almost never available because organizations must first concentrate on keeping these children alive with food, shelter, healthcare, and finding a home for the now rejected former child soldiers.

Invisible Children have their campaign on April 28th this year. Please be a part of it and if you can't please support them by buying any of the items they have available on their website including documentary DVDs about the crisis. This is my plea! Please help them.

So far, Uganda has 20,000 former child soldiers to care for with 20,000 more still missing within the ranks of this horrific army. Please. Do something. Anything.