Daily Life,Entrepreneurship,International Development,Microenterprise,Microenterprise Programs 12 August 2011

Recently I found myself wondering around a local downtown, aimlessly weaving in and out of independent shops in a very affluent neighborhood when something caught my eye. For a moment I disregarded what I saw.  The colorful paper beads had lost major significance to me because I became so aware …

 Daily Life,Health & Mortality,HIV/AIDS 10 August 2011

A couple days ago I read on AllAfrica.com’s news site that President Yoweri Museveni has called on Ugandans to “abstain from pre-marital sex as a way of protecting themselves from contracting the HIV/AIDS virus.”
President Museveni said, “I would encourage you to abstain rather than thinking that you would survive on …

 Daily Life,Featured!,Volunteer Spotlight 26 July 2011

Tessa Davis greeting Nyangoma Rachaels mother, Florence.
Catching up with our “on-the-ground” team in Uganda can prove difficult when it comes to the Just Like My Child Foundation’s blog but we caught Program Manager and former Peace Corps volunteer, Tessa Davis for a brief moment to answer a few quick questions …

 Children,Daily Life,Health & Mortality,Human Rights,Medical & Health Programs,Program Updates,Volunteer Spotlight 28 June 2011

A couple weeks ago we interviewed one of of our amazing volunteers who just returned from Uganda.
Puja Shah graduated from Tufts School of Dental Medicine in 2007 and in 2008 completed her general practice residency at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. She works as a dentist in a …

 Children,Daily Life,Education,Education Programs & Schools,Human Rights,Project Universal Education,The Girl Power Project,The Mandela Project 15 June 2011

It doesn’t take long to see that there are few better ways to change the course of the world than to get girls into school and to keep them there. Furthermore, the United Nations has consistently advocated that educating girls has a larger impact on the world than any other initiative. …