Een cheque van AZSV
Van 11 tot en met 23 juni 2018 werd er bij AZSV door twintig heren- en veertien damesteams weer gestreden om de felbegeerde Straatvoetbalbokaal. Het inschrijfgeld gaat altijd naar een goed doel en dit keer was dat bestemd [...]
Latrines for Ndegeya
Together with Apollo, nurse Kakande visits the people of Ndegeya to tell them how to prevent disease. Curing diseases is fine but preventing them is much better. They advise the people about how to take simple steps to prevent [...]
Joanne’s Children Corner, meant for handicapped children
In Oeganda handicapped children have a very difficult time and without our help they would have little chance to develop themselves. At the moment four handicapped children go to school but a number of children are not able to [...]
Renovation work at Little Stars School
At the Little Stars School construction mistakes have been made resulting in an unsafe situation. The walls were slowly crumbling down and the bricks fell on the floor. The management of the school asked the Joanne Foundation if we [...]
Lions Club Markelo- Lochem Mixed organiseerde “Proeven en Fietsen”
De Lions Club Markelo- Lochem Mixed had voor hun activiteit “Proeven en fietsen” eind mei weer een schitterende fietstocht uitgezet, waar onderweg heerlijke hapjes werden geserveerd. Verschillende bedrijven hebben een bijdrage geleverd en ook het inschrijfgeld was bestemd [...]
Change of the board of the Joanne Foundation
The board of the Joanne Foundation has a new membership. Unfortunately we had to say goodbye to our boardmember Elske Baron. Together with students of Schaersvoorde she started many activities to raise money for “Joannes’ children in Uganda” in [...]
Phionah passed her exams!
For half a year Phionah Meeme lived in Joanne’s house at the children centre in Oeganda in 2007. She was very special to Joanne. Phionah had hardly had any education and that’s why we are so very proud that [...]
Celebration!
Daily tens of children come to Joanne’s Library & Reading Club to read and play with educational toys. But in the weekends between 60 and 80 children come to visit. This time there was a special afternoon for them, [...]
Foodpackages for the poorest
In Ndegeya, the community where the Joanne Foundation operates, are many poor people. But there are a number of families who are poorer than poor and finding food is a daily struggle for them. Together with Apollo and Jane, [...]
Our team in Uganda
You will have seen various pictures of our staffmembers in Uganda but now we a nice picture of these committed and enthousiastic people. The Joanne Foundation has shirts made (thanks to embroidery studio Gijsbertsen) on which are printed the [...]
Yiga
In Uganda the summer holidays are over and all the children have started school again. Only Yiga, a handicapped boy, is not able to attend school. He is eager to learn but can’t attend an ordinary school (yet). Because [...]
New glasses
For children it is very important to be able to see well. Especially for the children in Uganda as they have no schoolbooks and have to copy texts from the blackboard. If they can’t read the text on the [...]