Library Opening!!

Shana tova!!
Almost four years after BCC staff, students, sponsored children, and I conceived of the idea for a library, I sat under the mango tree in front of the newly constructed library building as we celebrated its opening!!
Before the day of the opening actually arrived, we received a shipment of 15 boxes of books from [...]

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“How do you measure a year?” 5895m?

It’s about time that I write a blog post about my incredible adventures this summer in East Africa with my brother Edden and his friend Adi. Since so much happened during our month there, I am going to, for the most part, just write about highlights from the trip. With the encouragement (or coercion) of [...]

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And I’m Off…

It’s hard to believe that it has been one year since Adam and I returned from Uganda. We have had an incredible year in New York City– Adam finished his first year of rabbinical school at the Jewish Theological Seminary while serving as the rabbinic intern at the Maryland Hillel and teaching Hebrew school at [...]

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Photos!

This morning I received these incredible photos of the completed library and the first pieces of furniture. After the district held a training for 126 people about HIV/AIDS and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in the facility, BCC has begun to outfit the space with furniture. I will continue to post pictures as [...]

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A Passover Thought

Our seder begins with children being encouraged to ask questions and reflect on various aspects of Passover. We then spend hours explaining to the children “why this night is different from all other nights.” Additionally, we read about the four children who have different ways of engaging with the tradition. We often explain these four [...]

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Library Update!!!

Dear Friends of BCC,
Our library is almost complete! This week the facility will be used for the first time, hosting a five day peer-educator training seminar on adolescent reproductive health. Your support helped make BCC’s dream a reality, and we are excited to share some of the highlights of the last few months.
In addition to [...]

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An Overdue Update

We returned from East Africa at the end of June and have been busy with school and work ever since (not to mention struggling to adjust to life in America). Adam worked at Ramah Nyack and Ramah in the Rockies (the newest Ramah camp that will open in 2010) and just started Rabbinical school at [...]

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See it for yourself…

We broke ground yesterday!!! It was such an exciting day. I posted a few pictures online and hope to write up a short description of the ceremony in the next few days (no promises, though, since we are heading to Kenya for the weekend).

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We did it!

I have started many blog posts apologizing for the delay in writing and updating you about our life in Uganda. But this has definitely been the longest hiatus between posts, at least posts from me. My apologies. Since we returned from Ethiopia, life has been a whirlwind and now that we have less than a [...]

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childhood in uganda

It was just after we had buried my mother in the banana plantation in the village….I was in the house along, resting in my grandmama’s bed when Daddy’s friend, Mr Nsozi, tiptoed into my room. And everyone on the hill knows he has AIDS…[H]e told me not to scream and said that if I made [...]

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