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Teaching Marketable Skills In Uganda
STORIES OF HOPE AND BRIGHT FUTURES


And Poof! Just Like That, You've Changed a ViIllage
Village women gathered for a sewing workshop led by Shirley Moran and myself. Starting with fewer than 25 participants, each woman...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Jul 24, 20241 min read
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A New Lockdown in Place, June 7, 2021
Exactly one month after we landed in Uganda, President Museveni announced the second nationwide COVID Lockdown. Why? COVID cases have...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Jun 8, 20222 min read
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Changing Marshmallows into Goats
!!! Reader Beware: Photos in this post include those of goats being prepared for cooking. Please do not read if these might be offensive...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Mar 3, 20222 min read
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Got Milk?
This is James, our local milkman. He doesn’t come to our porch and trade full bottles of milk for empties like the old days at home....

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Jun 4, 20211 min read
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The Wheels on the Van go Round and Round!
Thank You! Generous friends, family members, strangers, and 2 organizations (Power Ministries and The Kiwanis CLub of Riverside) donated...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Jun 4, 20211 min read
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Don't Sit Under the Mango Tree with Anyone Else but Me
It is mango time in Uganda! Everywhere there are mangoes. Trees are dropping the baseball-sized fruit with a thud. We have two...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
May 20, 20211 min read
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A Sweet Story of Success
Nancy and Dominic are a young married couple with three small children living in Gulu, Uganda. When we arrived to begin our ministry,...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Jan 20, 20212 min read
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The Evolution of My Blogs
During my blog history which began in 2003, I created blogs for a number of purposes each meant to segment different parts of my life....

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Jan 17, 20211 min read
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A New Van?
Travel to outlying areas in Uganda is rough. Heck, travel within the developed areas can be rough, too. Riding along in a cramped van...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Dec 10, 20201 min read
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Inquiring Minds Want to Know
I have a love-hate relationship with technology. This evening I’m deep into the hate side of the equation. I guess that wonderfully...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Aug 30, 20203 min read
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Happy News!
Jeff and I left for Uganda on August 15, 2019, one year ago. We thought back on the things that happened during our time there. There...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Aug 21, 20201 min read
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Too Good Not to Share - Fresh off the Press!
This morning I awoke to an email with a food distribution report from Pastor Simon Oloyojok. When we receive donations for food, we wire...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Aug 15, 20201 min read
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We are Concerned About Our Friends
Our lives, in a nutshell. Since our return to the US in early April, we have had the pleasure of talking to family and friends. Based on...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Apr 6, 20203 min read
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A little bit of education can be a bad thing.
We found out there is a large opportunity for support raising at the end of the year as people reflect upon finances and decide where to...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Dec 2, 20194 min read
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Things that Go Bump in the Night
We arrived in Entebbe after 22 hours of flying, as scheduled, and had a rather uneventful 7 hour drive to Gulu. Little did we know that...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Aug 28, 20195 min read
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Definition of generous
Definition of generous a. characterized by a noble or kindly spirit : MAGNANIMOUS , KINDLY ; a generous  heart b. Ladies of the...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Aug 4, 20191 min read
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Emotions (by Jeff)
Emotions Yvonne has written about the stress she has been feeling during our packing and all the other details we have had to address...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Jul 30, 20192 min read
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What a difference a text makes.
Our all-grown-up kids decided that it would be fitting to gather last weekend for the last time we would all be in our house together for...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Jul 29, 20192 min read
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Surprise! Friends who are like family Part 2
My precious friends from women's Bible study decided to surprise me with a party to say goodbye. I was very touched. There were many...

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Jul 29, 20191 min read
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Thoughts about packing my sewing room.
Thanks to the hard work of my 2 sons, Jonathan and Jacob, my longarm quilting machine is disassembled and ready to be put into storage....

Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
Jun 16, 20191 min read
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