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How a Little Life Can Mean So Much in Death

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 Daily Life, HIV/AIDS 16 June 2010

Posts like this are never easy. Yet events such as this are what remind us why our work in Uganda is so vital. How the lives we touch need so much what we give…
Our country director, Dena (whom you hear from a lot on here), recently notified us that George, …

Project GRACE, Lifting HIV Positive Families Out of Poverty through Micro-finance

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Bishop Asili Hospital is finding that a growing number of their HIV positive clientele are quite healthy and have a second chance at life as a result of getting the best possible treatment available as well as having the opportunity to check their CD4 count when necessary. Unfortunately, there is …

Help us get children’s vitamins to Uganda before they expire!

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We’ve had THREE TONS of children’s vitamins donated to Just Like My Child Foundation. That’s nearly ONE MILLION nutrition packed capsules and almost 4000 BOTTLES of vitamins. Amazing!
The children of the 600,000-person Ugandan community we serve are ready and waiting for this huge investment in their brain, health, and physical …

One of the most dangerous things an African woman can do is become pregnant

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Less than $50,000 has drastically reduced maternal deaths for a community of over 30,000 people. (Photo by Vivian Glyck)
My hero, New York Times op-ed writer Nick Kristof, has again, told it like it really is. While traveling in Sierra Leone this week, he stopped at a rural hospital and wrote, …

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