A new project: Joanne’s Farm
One of the priorities of the Joanne Foundation is more self-sufficiency for the Ndegeya community. Together with the village elders and our team in Uganda we try to stimulate activities that generate extra income in the long run. [...]
Vaccins
Millions of vaccins have been produced till now and fortunately part of those vaccins have been sent to Uganda. The Ugandan government decided to vaccinate the healthcare workers first. Our nurses Kakande and Michael are very glad (as [...]
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 [...]