Guest BLOG from Exodus Trekker Bob Schwarz
Please check out the MAAPFoundation story as written by journalist Bob Schwarz. He is a true friend of our work in Uganda. http://exodustrekkers.blogspot.com/2021/?
Deacon Accepts “Calling Within a Calling”
Fellow Deacons: Show us the money? Please! I am begging for those begging for life. If the poor come to a Uganda clinic and cannot pay, they very often are turned way. How terribly sad and wrong.I never planned combining parish based ministry with serving on the staff of Bishop Listecki in Chicago’s Vicariate…
Near Death Experience Inspires
Remembering today , and most days since, unintentional medical malpractice nearly killed my wife and 3rd child during delivery. (1981) Accessible med staff rallied achieving a miracle as both survived. Today, as I witness medically vulnerable moms and babies abandoned in Uganda I often cry for them. Once, I was helpless to intervene, but now…
A year ago photojournalist David Klein and I were traveling all over Uganda visiting MAAPFoundation projects, old and new. For nearly 10 years our mission helps sponsors village based small farm projects organized to help pay for local impoverished moms and baby’s urgent medical needs. It feels so good trying to make a difference. Join…
Look What You’ve Done?
Just one year ago photojournalist David Klein and I filmed life saving surgeries all day in a $25,000 facility you US donors created. Each contributor, like David pursued supporting this surgical center serving impoverished women in Nakifuma Uganda East Africa. David says, “I went to film how Deacon Don and his band of friends create…
Discovering Personal Fulfillment
A bit of an unusual blog today which is coming from Arenal Costa Rica. While on vacation I am thinking how inviting you to join our life giving work in Uganda may assist you in achieving personal fulfillment. Finding one’s purpose is a great treasure worth pursuing. That self discovery of connections of curing…
Girls stay in School Project Update
Kasia Janus and Maapf making a difference with Girls stay in School Project. Orientation meeting at Kakone primary school Trainers and the students of St. Egidio primary school. Trainers and the Parish pastor on ‘Reusable Sanitary Pads project’ orientation day. Sewing machine and Sanitary pad in progress Girls learning to make reusable sanitary pads Liquid…
Happy Mother’s Day from Uganda
olunaku lwa bamaama olulungi (Happy Mother’s Day in Ugandan ) Dear Friend of MAAPFoundation: Mother’s Day is special for the MAAPFoundation as our priority is to address the unmet urgent medical struggles of impoverished mom’s and babies. In rural Uganda we find villages where 75% of those who require medical assistance do not have the ability to…
Are You On A Mission? Join Us
Hi: I am Deacon Don Grossnickle,- the founder of MAAPFoundation almost 10 years ago. After 35 years in schools and 35 years as a Catholic deacon I cherish working to help friends in Uganda. It does not cost me to be on a mission. Instead, it pays! I am a happy volunteer. I have a…
Uganda Mothers and Babies Lack Access to Facilities
Richard M Kavuma explains that the structure of the Ugandan healthcare system, and the facilities available in villages, work on a referral basis. If a level II facility cannot handle a case, it refers it to a unit the next level up. Services in public facilities are supposed to be free, but in many…