Empowerment,Featured!,Health & Mortality,Medical & Health Programs 10 September 2010

Your current car is unreliable but a new one is not in the budget. Every time your car doesn’t run, you can’t get to work. If you don’t work, you don’t get paid. If you don’t get paid you can’t fix your car or you go into …

 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,Empowerment,Entrepreneurship,HIV/AIDS,Main Content,Microenterprise,Microenterprise Programs 3 September 2010

Anatolia is a 56 year-old HIV positive widow and was in precarious condition, suffering from HIV and struggling every day to feed her family of eight. Through treatment, counseling and therapy from Bishop Asili Hospital, she has learned how to live a positive and healthy lifestyle despite being infected …

 Entrepreneurship,International Development,Main Content,Politics & Policy 31 August 2010

What would you do if you were told you were sitting on billions of gallons of oil? You might feel as though you had won the lottery – excited and nervous as you planned your new life of wealth. Now consider that after finding out you struck oil, …

 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 …