Empowerment,Featured!,Human Rights,The Girl Power Project,Women
12 September 2011
Last November, I had the incredible opportunity to travel to India.
We went to many of the holiest cities in the North, including Rishikesh made famous by The Beatles. They wrote many songs during the brief time they were there, including “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road,” – a …
Daily Life,Microenterprise Programs,Program Updates,Volunteer Spotlight
17 August 2011
Meet Ruthie Espanol: The muscle behind donor relations and operations at Just Like My Child Foundation. Ruthie followed her heart to join JLMCF’s mission in 2008, gaining greater purpose in giving back to those need it most. We took a moment out of our busy schedules to ask Ruthie a …
Daily Life,Entrepreneurship,International Development,Microenterprise,Microenterprise Programs
12 August 2011
Recently I found myself wondering around a local downtown, aimlessly weaving in and out of independent shops in a very affluent neighborhood when something caught my eye. For a moment I disregarded what I saw. The colorful paper beads had lost major significance to me because I became so aware …
Several of my recent blogs talked about the importance of education in developing countries, specifically in Uganda. I talked about the great impact the Just Like My Child Foundation has had within certain rural Ugandan villages, the schools and programs that were built specifically to educate, young children who might …
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 …
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