Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
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...
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Teaching Marketable Skills In Uganda
STORIES OF HOPE AND BRIGHT FUTURES
Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Oct 18, 2023
- 1 min
My Goodness! Look at What You’ve Done!
Do you remember the Raincross Quilt Guild meeting back in 2019 when so many members presented donations to begin sewing classes in...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Jul 8, 2022
- 1 min
Sandra- From Bricklayer to Seamstress
There are so many people in Uganda who touch our hearts. One is Sandra, a young woman hard at work in the hot sun, mixing mortar, loading...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Mar 3, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Feb 21, 2022
- 1 min
A Huge Yam!
While we were in Adjumani a few days ago, the ladies honored me with the gift of the largest YAM I have ever seen. Always doing things in...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Feb 11, 2022
- 2 min
I Almost Stepped on a Humble Baby
Meet Joyce.and her sweet baby Wilma. They are the stars of the show. I almost stepped on a humble baby. It was a very close call! Helping...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Jan 11, 2022
- 1 min
Standing by Herself for the First Time!
Take one small 7 year old girl from a village in Northern Uganda who has never walked (Apiyo), Add 2 compassionate...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Nov 13, 2021
- 2 min
Our Love Story of Uganda
Do you know when and how and why Jeff and I fell in love with Uganda? Funny thing, we know that many of our friends don't know what...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Jul 17, 2021
- 2 min
A Wheelchair for Apiyo
Greetings from Riverside! Yes, in case you missed the news, we returned to Riverside July 9. Uganda is on a full lockdown due to a marked...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Jun 4, 2021
- 1 min
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....
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Jun 4, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- May 22, 2021
- 1 min
Feeling Loved in Adjumani
A surprise of mammoth proportions! and I went to Adjumani yesterday with Okello Charles Odoch, Dominic Toonekalit and his wife Nancy,...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Jan 20, 2021
- 2 min
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,...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Sep 3, 2020
- 6 min
The REAL Reason We Came Back to Riverside
Some Observations and Random Thoughts There are many things that I could have included in this update but haven’t because it would have...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Aug 30, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Aug 21, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Aug 15, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Jeff & Yvonne Weinstein
- Jun 23, 2020
- 2 min
7 weeks to go!
Just 7 weeks until we take off on August 14th for a year (or more) of volunteer service in Uganda! This year, I plan to teach 300...
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