Africa  

 

There's the old expression about how a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
For the Rafiki Africa Foundation, that saying has more than one meaning.
In western Kenya, the Lancaster nonprofit group is working to grow a school that is teaching children to empower themselves...

A dozen community members  shimmied across the stage to the beat of an African drum Sunday afternoon at the third annual African Cultural Festival.

More than 500 people attended the event at the Farm and Home Center on Arcadia Road, enjoying a day of African dancing, music, food and celebrat...

The news from Africa is often grim.

But that's not the whole story, insists Dorothy Dulo, a native of Kenya who runs Rafiki's Deli at Central Market with her husband, Uganda-born Roger Godfrey.

Together, they organized the African Festival to show another side of the story.

Now in its third...

By profession, Brent M. Detter is a registered landscape architect for ELA Group Inc. in Lititz.
But his passion is volunteering for Engineering Ministry International, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The nonprofit Christian development organization consists of architects, engineers and d...

Editor's Note: Anthony Burkhart is a Cocalico High School graduate attending the World Cup as a fan. Here is the latest in his series of reports. 
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —The first 14 days of my month-long stay at World Cup were planned before I left the States, but an itinerary ...

Luke Schoenfelder was an avid builder of childhood forts.
Now, the 21-year-old Georgetown University student has created what he calls the "ultimate fort."
Made of polypropylene bags stuffed with earth, the circular hut set well back in his family's Willow Street area woodlot surely ...

The stories David Hain told about Pollsmoor Prison in South Africa, the place he was about to visit, were horrifying even to the veterans of Lancaster County Prison.
Pollsmoor, a maximum-security prison whose most famous inmate was Nelson Mandela, has 7,400 inmates, Hain told members of an ex-offend...

Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at Lancaster Public Library, 125 N. Duke St.
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Karendra Devroop swept aside every obstacle thrown in his path as he wound his way from South Africa to Elizabethtown.
The assistant professor of music at Elizabethtown College and budding jazz saxophonist grew up in a South Africa still gripped by apartheid, institutionalized racism against nonwhit...

Today, Cole Horne looks, sounds and acts like any other middle-school boy.
He's the normal height and weight, has floppy hair and a face full of freckles.
He likes to wrestle and play baseball.
And when he tells a story to a stranger, he alternates between being shy and animated.
Appearances can...