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, …

 Education Programs & Schools 28 April 2009

After being on vacation in Thailand for the last four weeks I was eager to get to the school building site in Katikamu to see the progress the community had made in my absence. I was pleased as always to find that things had moved along smoothly. The school and …

 Malaria,Maternal & Child Mortality 23 April 2009

An I.V. had to be inserted into her head because all of her other veins were collapsed from dehydration.
As I stood watching helplessly, all I could think of was:
“What would I do if this was my child?”
One evening last month when I was in Uganda, I met a beautiful little …