Children,Empowerment,Human Rights,Project Justice,Women 14 November 2011

When we discovered that 16 girls at one of our Just Like My Child schools at St. Kizito in rural Uganda had been sexually molested or assaulted by their own teacher, we knew the odds were beyond dismal for any justice. Ugandan officials have acknowledged that ten percent of all …

 Children,Empowerment,Entrepreneurship,Human Rights,International Development,Program Updates,The Girl Power Project,Volunteer Spotlight,Women 15 September 2011

“I discovered ways of building my self esteem”
“I unlearned the mentality that men are stronger than women!” – Two Graduates of The Girl Power Project
For centuries, Ugandan women and girls have been forced to meekly kneel before men. We are so proud of Nyiraguhabwa Monica, who is teaching our girls …

 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,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 …

 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. …