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,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 …

 Education,Health & Mortality,Medical & Health Programs 11 August 2010

In the U.S. we want to believe we make better food choices than less developed countries because we have the education and resources to do so.  However, we are not as different as you might think.
In the past year I have seen various news outlets make the correlation between our …

 Health & Mortality,Medical & Health Programs 1 June 2009

We’ve had THREE TONS of children’s vitamins donated to Just Like My Child Foundation. That’s nearly ONE MILLION nutrition packed capsules and almost 4000 BOTTLES of vitamins. Amazing!
The children of the 600,000-person Ugandan community we serve are ready and waiting for this huge investment in their brain, health, and physical …

 Maternal & Child Mortality,Medical & Health Programs 17 May 2009

Less than $50,000 has drastically reduced maternal deaths for a community of over 30,000 people. (Photo by Vivian Glyck)
My hero, New York Times op-ed writer Nick Kristof, has again, told it like it really is. While traveling in Sierra Leone this week, he stopped at a rural hospital and wrote, …