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 …
If you have ever been pregnant then you will understand the trials and tribulations I am about to write. When you first find out you have a life growing inside of you, you feel scared. Scared about the type of mother you will be and maybe, “how in the world …
Featured!,Health & Mortality,Medical & Health Programs,Program Updates,Volunteer Spotlight
5 May 2011
Next week I will be headed to visit the Asili Hospital in Luwero, Uganda with two very special women: Dr. Puja Shah and Lidia Domagalska-Trainer. Dr. Shah is a dentist from La Jolla, California and Lidia is a graduate student currently working towards her master’s degree at the Pacific College …