Children,Education,Education Programs & Schools,Empowerment,Featured!,Human Rights,Program Updates,Project Universal Education,The Girl Power Project,Women
8 July 2011
When I met Nalubombwe Josephine in May of 2007, she was a 10-year-old-girl living in one of the most vulnerable situations imaginable.
Nearly 30% of her neighbors were infected with HIV, she was surrounded by dozens of orphans, and she was going to a school that had no books and barely …
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. …
Empowering women is just one facet of Just Like My Child’s mission of improving the quality of life for the women and children in rural villages in Uganda. It gives me great pride and pleasure to share some astounding results I have received from our empowerment expert, Monica Nyiraguhabwa. She …
Last night I sat up late with my amazing team in Uganda. After I put my 8-year-old son to bed under a hot and sticky bed net after his first full day in Africa, we consumed more than our fair share of Nile Specials, which we consider the best local …
Education,Main Content,Project Universal Education
3 May 2011
Several posts back, I introduced our amazing contributors Ben and Beatrice Oryang, both professors of education at a teacher’s college in Uganda. If you missed that post, I urge you to go back and read about these two people. In brief, Ben and Beatrice are the true pearls of Uganda …
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