Masks with the Achterhoek flag
Through the radio program called " Gelderland helpt " we received 50 masks from De Achterhoekse Winkel for our project in Uganda. On the masks is printed the Achterhoek county flag. 50 people in the Ndegeya community now [...]
Yiga passed away
Sad news… our brave Yiga passed away 24 February. He had the Beare Stevenson syndrome and we knew that he wouldn’t grow old. His health deteriorated the last few months but still he died unexpectedly. His heart gave [...]
Christmas food packages
Like previous years we asked Apollo and Jane to distribute Christmas food packages among those families who needed them the most. We used to hand out 30 packages but thanks to some wonderful gifts we [...]
A small shop for Henry
During our visits to Uganda Henry is always our driver, the rest of the year he is a taxi driver. Due to the strict corona measures taxis are forbidden to transport passengers so Henry lost his income. [...]
Tutoring
Due to the corona virus the schools in Uganda are still closed. In February and March the children received their education for only six weeks. We hope that the schools will re-open in January 2021 sothat the children [...]
Allon goes to daycare
A very special moment for Allon: it is the first time that he goes to Joanne’s Children Corner, the daycare for handicapped children. He enjoyed meeting other children and Dianne and Charity were very interested in “this new [...]
A new floor for Nalango
Nalongo is a widow living in a small house together with her two handicapped sons. She is bothered by very painful inflammations in her legs and feet caused by jiggers. Jiggers are sandflees that crawl into the skin [...]
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 [...]