The rainy season has started
Uganda has two seasons: the dry and the wet season. Due to climate changes, you see that the dry seasons are often drier than usual and the wet seasons are also much wetter. The rainy season [...]
Strawberry auction
'Bert Lensink Zachtfruit' auctioned the first box of strawberries of this season on Saturday 14 May. The entire proceeds were intended for the work of the Joanne Foundation. Bids rose well on the Facebook page and a few [...]
Owen
You may remember the story of Owen: a boy with Down syndrome, who came our way in 2014. Apollo found him in a shed. His mother was ashamed of him, because children with disabilities in Uganda [...]
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 [...]