Uganda

QSA Notes: people, places & projects Under the watchful eye of Josephine  Kizza, the trainers at St Jude Organic  Farming Centre in Uganda continue to  help rural communities to achieve greater  food and water security. For Monica Ssenkindu, a...

QSA study tour to Cambodia

QSA Notes: people, places and projects Fourteen intrepid Friends joined  Margaret Bywater of Tasmania Regional  Meeting, who works in Cambodia, and  QSA’s Jackie Perkins on a study tour to visit  the QSA and AusAID funded programs  in Cambodia. It was a great...

QSA projects and climate change

With so much in the news about climate change, it is interesting to know how it is affecting the work of QSA and its project partners. A series of discussions and surveys among project participants in Cambodia, India and Uganda has revealed comments such as needing to...

Tasmania’s Meeting for Learning

By Fiona Gardner, Victoria Regional Meeting. The Meeting for Learning Retreat offers Friends a year-long program with a week retreat at the beginning and end of the year. The program provides a structure within which Friends can explore and nurture their own spiritual...

Friends and the ‘responsibility to protect’

By Adrian Glamorgan In 1994, within 100 days about 20 per cent of Rwanda’s population was killed. Facilitated by the Rwanda government, the militia used and handed out guns, grenades and machete: estimates vary between 500,000 to one million Tutsi and pro-peace Hutu...

Respectful Relationships: A responsibility for all

By Judith Pembleton,  Queensland Regional Meeting. As a relatively new concept, promoting and protecting Respectful Relationships (RR) is still a mysterious process for many Australian Friends. In March, representatives from each regional meeting, together with the...