Education,Education Programs & Schools 12 August 2009

The Children’s Academy For the Collective Heart is open for transformation! Our first school in rural Uganda, built in partnership with Debbie Ford’s foundation, The Collective Heart and with support from Cynthia Kersey’s Unstoppable Foundation and the Mark Victor Hansen Foundation, opened in May and the finishing touches …

 Program Updates 27 July 2009

Country Director, Tessa Davis and soon to be Country Director Dena Lewerke say goodbye's and get introduced to the parents and guardians of the Just Like My Child Foundation Sponsorship Program
This is my first blog posting as the new Country Director for JLMC. My name is Dena Lewerke and I …

 Education Programs & Schools 2 June 2009

Katikamu is in the final stretch of the school building project that they have been working on for close to six months now.
A skilled laborer is hard at work plastering the outside of the building.

The outside of the school building is almost completely plastered. Soon it will be ready …

 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, …