Health & Mortality,Main Content,Medical & Health Programs 14 September 2010

Have you ever ridden 40 miles on your bicycle in one day? Without stopping? On rough, dirt roads? While you were 9 months pregnant? While you were having contractions?
Imagine suffering from the effects of malaria; being dehydrated, nauseous, and not able to move. …

 Empowerment,Featured!,Health & Mortality,Medical & Health Programs 10 September 2010

Your current car is unreliable but a new one is not in the budget. Every time your car doesn’t run, you can’t get to work. If you don’t work, you don’t get paid. If you don’t get paid you can’t fix your car or you go into …

 Featured!,Health & Mortality,Main Content,Medical & Health Programs 7 September 2010

In previous posts I have mentioned Sister Ernestine Akulu, founder of the Asili Hospital in rural Uganda. She is an impressive and inspiring woman and I wanted to share some of the journey she took on her way to becoming an invaluable asset to her …

 Education,Empowerment,Entrepreneurship,HIV/AIDS,Main Content,Microenterprise,Microenterprise Programs 3 September 2010

Anatolia is a 56 year-old HIV positive widow and was in precarious condition, suffering from HIV and struggling every day to feed her family of eight. Through treatment, counseling and therapy from Bishop Asili Hospital, she has learned how to live a positive and healthy lifestyle despite being infected …

 Education,Health & Mortality,Main Content,Malaria,Medical & Health Programs 27 August 2010

In previous posts I wrote about the distribution of mosquito bed nets to the rural communities of Uganda.  This is one way to help combat the unbelievable statistics that a child dies every 30 seconds of this treatable, preventable disease. And nearly one million people (mainly children in Africa) die …