Children,Health & Mortality,International Development,Keep A Mother Alive,Main Content,Medical & Health Programs 4 April 2012

 
Bishop Asili Hospital Dentist, Jane Mandera, pictured right with Puja Shah and Dental Beneficiaries

Dental care has always been something that I have taken for granted. My mother was adamant that we get our teeth cleaned and checked every six months, and we were lucky enough to always have the …

 Children,Education,Education Programs & Schools,Empowerment,Featured!,Health & Mortality,Human Rights,Human Rights Programs,International Development,Main Content,Microenterprise Programs,Program Updates,Project Justice,Project Universal Education,The Girl Power Project,Women 9 March 2012

Universal Primary Education is key to tackling poverty. Children who receive primary education have higher chances of being empowered to make their own decisions and to provide for their families in the future. Since 2008, Just Like My Child (JLMC) has built partnerships with five communities to build schools where …

 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,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 …

 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 …