by Emily | Oct 10, 2022 | Happenings in India, Lulu Mamas, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Dear Lulu Tree Family — we asked our partners in north and south India if they would share stories from the tailoring centers of the mothers who are being trained so they can care for their families. Following are those stories, straight from the source. Be... 
by Lulu Stories | Apr 25, 2022 | Biblical Training, Happenings in Uganda, Sustainability
by Erica We’ve driven through miles of dusty, rugged road, past fields where women work the rusty soil, their babies sleeping on their backs while the equatorial sun shines warm around them in the thick, humid air. We pass a cluster of brick kilns, great beehive-like... 
by Lulu Stories | Dec 6, 2021 | Happenings in South Sudan, Sustainability
By Mommy Emily It’s night when we finally arrive at the camps, the cicadas singing and the whites of the stars blinking brighter than they ever seem to at home. The quiet darkness is quite the contrast to the five-hour-long bus ride we took from Kampala to Gulu,... 
by Emily | Jan 11, 2021 | Happenings in Liberia, Happenings in Sierra Leone, Happenings in South Sudan, Happenings in Uganda, Lulu Tree Updates, Sustainability, The Lulu Tree philosophy, Transparency of Funds
HOW IT ALL BEGAN But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” ~ 1 Corinthians 2:9 Seven years ago, this month, I took my first plane ride to Uganda. Seven... 
by Emily | Dec 7, 2020 | Happenings in Sierra Leone, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Sierra Leone Goes Sustainable by Mommy Emily It’s November 2016. I’ve left my three little ones with their Oma and Opa and Dad on the farm in northern Alberta, snow piled high. I’m flying, alone, to a country in West Africa, a tiny country made infamous by Ebola,...