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”. …
Daily Life,Empowerment,Health & Mortality,HIV/AIDS
28 April 2011
When was the last time you met someone with AIDS? Do you know anyone with AIDS? How is he or she coping with the antiretroviral therapy that most Americans can access through health coverage? Did you know that there is an estimated 1.2 million Ugandans living with AIDS and nearly …
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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