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From Athens to Africa

Written by Morgan Augur, Photographed by Erin Corneliussen

In the middle of a village road, in the middle of Uganda, in the middle of Africa, Andria Sherrow stood, disturbed...
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Helping African Women Help Themselves: Portsmouth West grad and OU student part of Empower Campaign

By Ryan Scott Ottney, PDT Staff Writer

Gwennan Richmond graduated from Portsmouth West High School in 2007 and embarked into a world much larger than many in Scioto County will ever realize...
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Men compete in pageant to raise money for Uganda!

by Natalie Knoth, A News, Athens OH

Empower OU organized a pageant Friday night but there wasn’t a bikini, spray tan or high heel in sight. Instead 10 dressed-to-impress men, each representing a different student organization, took to the stage for the Mr. Empower Pageant in the Baker Theatre in Ohio University’s Baker Center. But there was still plenty of strutting and sashaying to go around in this unconventional pageant...
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Ohio University students return to Athens after traveling to Uganda for local nonprofit

By Ashley Luthern

Last week, two Ohio University students returned from Uganda, Africa, with a new perspective on the work they do here in Athens. Britney Gedeon and Gwennan Richmond, two OU juniors studying video production and political science, respectively, traveled to Uganda for 10 days as part of The Empower Campaign...
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Jewelry Sales Empower Ugandan Youth

By Kerry Kong and Monica Chapman

Breakfast before heading off to school may be part of the regular routine for the average American child, but to Muhebwa Richard, it was a dream. Since his parents died in 2001, then 12-year old Richard had been living alone in a village in Uganda,
working to ...
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Pittsburgh-Area College Student Gets Involved in Program Helping African Orphans

By Samantha Kalnas

As a child growing up in Cranberry Township, just north of Pittsburgh, I never really thought about the international world, and besides Disney’s The Lion King, Africa was barely even on my radar...
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Local Middleschooler does her part for Africa's orphans and vulnerable children

By Ashley Luthern

In five days, one local teenager was able to raise $1,200 for the Empower Campaign and she did it all on her own initiative...
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