Daily Life,Health & Mortality,HIV/AIDS
10 August 2011
A couple days ago I read on AllAfrica.com’s news site that President Yoweri Museveni has called on Ugandans to “abstain from pre-marital sex as a way of protecting themselves from contracting the HIV/AIDS virus.”
President Museveni said, “I would encourage you to abstain rather than thinking that you would survive on …
Daily Life,Featured!,Volunteer Spotlight
26 July 2011
Tessa Davis greeting Nyangoma Rachaels mother, Florence.
Catching up with our “on-the-ground” team in Uganda can prove difficult when it comes to the Just Like My Child Foundation’s blog but we caught Program Manager and former Peace Corps volunteer, Tessa Davis for a brief moment to answer a few quick questions …
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 …
Entrepreneurship,Featured!,International Development,Main Content,Microenterprise,Microenterprise Programs,Program Updates
6 July 2011
Here’s a great idea for your next corporate or company event:
You know how every time you go to a conference; you’re given a mass-produced tote bag with the logo of the sponsoring organization?
Well, this year, Traffic Geyser, Inc. did something a little different — and it created a BIG change. Exhibiting …
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