Featured!,Main Content 28 December 2011

Photo by Daniel Juare
This past October we celebrated our 5th Annual Gala: A Hand Up, Never A Hand Out at El Cortez in San Diego, California. We are happy to report that we were just shy of reaching our goal of $300,000.  We would love to reach this and even go …

 Daily Life,Education Programs & Schools,Featured!,Health & Mortality,Main Content,Program Updates,Project Universal Education,Volunteer Spotlight 10 December 2011

The JLMCF family has unfortunately lost one of our most treasured and significant team members on the ground. Sadly our Construction Supervisor, George William recently passed on from complications after surgery at Malogo Hospital in Kampala from an obstruction in his intestines. This has been a shocking and tragic loss …

 Daily Life,Featured!,Main Content,Volunteer Spotlight 28 November 2011

Just Like My Child Foundation is proud to announce Sara Todd as its new Country Director in Luwero District, Uganda. Prior to her new role with JLMCF, Todd was the Program Manager for the Jinishian Memorial Program (JMP), an Armenian relief and development agency working in the Middle East and …

 Children,Empowerment,Human Rights,Project Justice,Women 14 November 2011

When we discovered that 16 girls at one of our Just Like My Child schools at St. Kizito in rural Uganda had been sexually molested or assaulted by their own teacher, we knew the odds were beyond dismal for any justice. Ugandan officials have acknowledged that ten percent of all …

 Daily Life,Entrepreneurship,Featured!,International Development,Microenterprise,Microenterprise Programs,Program Updates 10 October 2011

There’s nothing like “Wekembe” to transform an African village! “Wekembe” is a Lugandan word that means, “We do it ourselves!” We all know how great “Wekembe” is in our lives, and this word totally captures the excitement we see when struggling people have new empowerment and the hope of economic …