Allon
One of the areas of focus of the Joanne Foundation is the care of children with a disability. Not long ago the Foundation decided to take in Allon in our program. Allon is a five-year-old boy with a [...]
Corona in Uganda
The corona virus has the world in its grip, also Uganda. The government has taken very strict precautionary measures and the country is in lockdown.Public life has come to a stand still: churches and schools are closed, as [...]
Rehema’s first school day
A very special day for Rehema, for the first time in her life she will go to school. Four years ago Apollo found her very malnourished, very ill and she was seriously lagging in development. Her chances of [...]
Christmas food package 2019
The day before Christmas Day, Apollo, Jane and Henry delivered Christmas food packages to 30 poor families in Ndegeya. The package consisted of a bag of rice, a live chicken and a bunch of matoke (cooking bananas). It [...]
Vocational subjects at the school for special needs
Besides giving general subjects management and teachers of the deaf school wanted to be able to give vocational subjects very much. This will enable them to offer their students better opportunities for their future because having learned a [...]
Visit of the optometrist te Kiefte
In October optometrist Derk Jan te Kiefte and his wife Christine went to Ndegeya again to continue the eye care project which they set up two years ago. They were able to do a lot of eye measurements [...]
Report cards
In the Netherlands the school holidays are over but in Uganda the second term has just ended and the students have a three-week-holiday. They all received their report cards and the results of most of the children [...]
Mosquito nets
Uganda is one of the countries where malaria is most common. Malaria is even the number one cause of death among children under five years of age. One simple measure that can be taken is using [...]
Maria and Hanifa
Maria A handicapped woman called Maria would like to work to be able to provide for herself. We gave her a financial impuls of €75 sothat she can buy material to make and sell mats Because of [...]
11th waterpump
We hardly ever dwell on how many watertaps we have in our homes and on the fact that clean water comes from these taps. In Uganda people often have to walk for two hours to collect water from [...]
The working visit of one of the boardmembers February 2019
Anja, one of our boardmembers, visited Uganda together with her husband Jacques. After their first working consultation with Apollo and Jane they visited various families in Ndegeya. During such a visit they gained a lot of impressions: they [...]
Shoes
How many pairs of shoes do you have in your closet? Many people in Uganda sometimes have only one pair of flip flops, but more often they have no shoes at all and walk bare feet. During her visit [...]