WiserEarth Area of Focus Stewards

LULE JOSEPH RUNNEL is my name, 25 years. Iam augandan citizen by birth and descent and ihave been working for the past 7 years and up to now sustainable community development mostly in rural areas through volunteerism constructing, schools to support education, health centres and dispensaries to support health development, children homes and orphanages to support the orphans and other disadvantaged children, children rights and human rights to help reach out to those whose rights are abused and help them raise their voices up to be heard for aconcern, tree planting to help in the fight against desertification and as well planting of several fruit trees to enable different community realise an income out of the made harvest taken to markets and for nutritional purposes as aresult of consumption. ihave been involved in peacebuilding, reconciliation and reconstruction in the northern uganda which region has been affected by a 2 decade armed conflict in the districts of gulu, pader, kitgum and amuru and ihave been also involved in the same programme in kenya in the western province in the inter tribal conflict between kurains, kipsigis and masai's undertaking peacebuilding and conflict transformation, as well ihave participated in the fight against malaria in uganda by participating in the distribution of treated mosquito nets to sevral communites and fight against hunger through donating food to poor school communities and in the fight against female genital mutilation in the eastern and north eastern uganda districts.
Iam so passionate about volunteering as one way to be able to offer even the little that i can to the suffering communities and ihave found pleasure in mobilising several youth groups, individuals and communities realise the benefit of volunteering and alot of appreciation has been made.
Right now iam the president of the EAST AFRICA NETWORK FOR PEACE BUILDERS (EANEP) operating in the countries of uganda, kenya, tanzania, rwanda and burundi as the east african community and uganda being the regional headquarters working with agroup of similarly persuaded youth like me for international peace and sustainable development and we organise international thematic work camps running all year round, awareness campaigns on peace building, reconciliation, reconstruction, good governance, democracy, and human rights, conduct leadership training for focus youth groups, capacity building and empowerment in community mobilisation, advocay and lobbying along side membership recruitment, work for food and environmental security, organise sporting events and other recreational activities for youth. so my urge is one for all people to come and visit us and participate in the work camps which are really inspiring, cultural, motivating and most of all educational.
you will be able to access us on our website from the 2nd week of Jan 2009.
www.eanep.org and you can contact me on jsphll2008@yahoo.co.uk, jsphll2008@gmail.com  
for any question am open to respond and as well meeting you any where in east africa, let us join our hands for great achievements of building up aconflict free world for this and more generations.