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 [...]
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 [...]
Fundraising by selling cinnamon biscuits
Already in September we are sometimes asked if we are planning on selling cinnamon biscuits in November again. We are very happy that baker Kuipers, his wife and two Schaersvoorde students have, for the eleventh time(!) baked cinnamon [...]
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 [...]
Joanne’s Children Corner
Together with Jane and Innocent, the Joanne Foundation has started a small-scale shelter for four disabled children from Ndegeya. Three days a week the four children go to Apollo’s house from 09.00 till 15.00 o’clock. Jane [...]
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 [...]