Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a very happy and peace filled 2008 from chilly Toronto (I returned without incident late Saturday afternoon). I am grateful for a wonderful 2007 and at this moment want to thank you all so much for joining me in Uganda through this blog, by reading my ramblings and keeping my and my colleagues in mind as we listened and learned from the people about the recent war and peace talks in the north, the ongoing conflict in DR Congo across the border and the ongoing human rights issues that continue to effect the most vulnerable.

As we move into January, my 3 colleagues and I will be working on reporting our findings and making recommendations to CPT (and hopefully complete them by the end of the month or early February). This will include a public report on both Uganda (by all four of us) and DR Congo by my two colleagues who spent time there. If you'd like to receive copies of the reports, let me know and I'll pass them on once completed (patience is requested) - for those of you on CPTNet, it may be distributed there and may also be posted on our website, www.cpt.org.

I want to thank you also for your continued and generous financial support, without which my participation in this exploration would not have been possible. I am most grateful.

Now that I am back, I am taking some time off to decompress, so to speak, before returning to work.

After today, please email me directly at andrea underscore si at yahoo dot com as this is my final post until my next travels with CPT. I look forward to hearing from you and to the many conversations sure to follow.

Ofoyo