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Eons ago in my last year of college, John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice was the text book for my political science class. The class was assigned to write about the factors that led to Nazi Germany’s murderous rampage. What characteristics did the fascists (and their supporters) have in common? I decided to write about Nazi Germany from a different angle. I wrote about the people who had resisted the fascists. They shared characteristics in common. Those who had resisted fascism had integrity, compassion, and a conscience.

Ngombor is a difficult word to translate because there is nothing so concise in English, but it is not a hard concept to get across – “ngombor” means the sense of hopefulness that comes from persistent effort. That hopefulness and the commitment to work to achieve it are at the heart of the Ngombor Community Development Alliance. Founded just this year, Ngombor is a new organization but its roots in West Nile region of Uganda go back more than 20 years, to a friendship between Vincent Ulargiw, a local Alur community leader and Dennis Argall, the father of Ngombor co-founder, Liz Argall.