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 …
Empowerment,Entrepreneurship,Featured!,Human Rights,International Development,Main Content,Microenterprise
21 June 2011
Some people thought I was crazy. But I did it anyway because I knew we’d be fine. Despite an Ebola scare and political instability, I took my husband, Mike, and my 8-year-old son to Uganda to visit Just Like My Child’s projects. My son raised money and delivered nearly $3000 …
Empowering women is just one facet of Just Like My Child’s mission of improving the quality of life for the women and children in rural villages in Uganda. It gives me great pride and pleasure to share some astounding results I have received from our empowerment expert, Monica Nyiraguhabwa. She …
Daily Life,Empowerment,Health & Mortality,HIV/AIDS
28 April 2011
When was the last time you met someone with AIDS? Do you know anyone with AIDS? How is he or she coping with the antiretroviral therapy that most Americans can access through health coverage? Did you know that there is an estimated 1.2 million Ugandans living with AIDS and nearly …
Children,Education Programs & Schools,Empowerment,HIV/AIDS,Main Content,Microenterprise Programs,Program Updates,Project Justice,The Mandela Project
26 April 2011
I recently returned from a whirlwind trip to Uganda where the Just Like My Child team and our partners powered through a rigorous agenda. We negotiated a deal with Heifer International to put over 500 Ugandan families in business, we sealed a contract with women attorneys who will carry …
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