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Laurie Kroll, Village2Village Director, has twenty-five
years of experience in the field of human services, much
of it working on children's issues. Providing hopeful solutions for
children in crisis situations has always been her passion, whether
she worked with Vermont's children in foster care, Vietnam's children
in orphanages, international students visiting the US, or Uganda's
parentless children. She and her husband have five children,
including two born in Vermont, two born in Vietnam, and James, born
in Uganda. They have also
been host parents to several exchange students.
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James Mutaka Kroll, Uganda Program Manager, is a
recent Information Technology graduate from Uganda Christian University in
Mukono, Uganda. His birthfather had seven wives and 33 children
before succumbing to AIDS when James was 13. After this, James had no
home. James performed well in secondary school despite working to pay
his own educational and living expenses. He realized his birthmother
was alive only shortly before his father's death, having been told
while young that she had been killed by rebels. It is the children of
her impoverished village that he reaches out to serve. James came to
live with the Kroll family in 2002, after working in Vermont as a
camp counselor for individuals with special needs. After returning to
Uganda, he began working with orphans, and desired to help the
children of Serere.
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