Showing posts with label heroes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heroes. Show all posts

Australia’s Irene ‘Mama’ Gleeson, 68, farewelled by thousands in Uganda

Ilya Gridneff, The Age, July 27, 2013
KITGUM, UGANDA: You do not find many Sydney grandmothers in an African war zone but for Irene Gleeson, who dedicated more than 20 years to giving hope to thousands of Ugandan children fleeing the Lord’s Resistance Army, she did not want to be anywhere else—it was home.