Last night I sat up late with my amazing team in Uganda. After I put my 8-year-old son to bed under a hot and sticky bed net after his first full day in Africa, we consumed more than our fair share of Nile Specials, which we consider the best local …
Featured!,Health & Mortality,Medical & Health Programs,Program Updates,Volunteer Spotlight
5 May 2011
Next week I will be headed to visit the Asili Hospital in Luwero, Uganda with two very special women: Dr. Puja Shah and Lidia Domagalska-Trainer. Dr. Shah is a dentist from La Jolla, California and Lidia is a graduate student currently working towards her master’s degree at the Pacific College …
Education,Main Content,Project Universal Education
3 May 2011
Several posts back, I introduced our amazing contributors Ben and Beatrice Oryang, both professors of education at a teacher’s college in Uganda. If you missed that post, I urge you to go back and read about these two people. In brief, Ben and Beatrice are the true pearls of Uganda …
The news of Bin Laden’s death has captured world attention, and it’s made me wonder, as civilians, how can we create our own counter-terrorism efforts? Here’s my story:
A few weeks ago I told my eight-year-old boy that I was going back to Uganda in May to work “on the ground”. …
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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