SUMMER 2024 Newsletter - PDF

• Education Report 2024
• Grace visits girls at boarding schools
• Post-secondary student updates
• Work and play
• A loss for the Blue House
• The Blue House Boutique
• Lost Forester Runs for the Blue House

Catherine, her husband and her baby at her graduation from Kampala School of Health Sciences. “Girls who complete a secondary school education earn more, marry later and raise children who are healthier and better nourished.” (UNICEF) Blue House girls have the added opportunity for post-secondary education! (Story p. 2)

SPRING 2024 - PDF

• Education for the Blue House students
• Assessing additional children
• "Summer" in Uganda
• New on the Board
• Appreciations & Ovations
• Mothers' Tea for the Blue House

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Social Worker, Grace Kyarikunda with Blue House children who graduated from nursery section to primary section. From left: Brenda, Moreen, and Praise.

AUTUMN 2023 - PDF

• ​Blue House Updates
• Appreciations & Ovations
• Josh Garubanda's Blue House Visit
• Josh's Photos
• Blue House Boutique
• New Girls, New Dresses

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Josh Garubanda, right, takes a selfie with the first four home-based boys to be recruited to Blue House in 2019 and 2020. In 2023 they look pretty happy!

Catherine has received a Medical Records certificate and is employeed.

WINTER 2023 - PDF

• Happy New Year from Blue House Uganda
• Another student success
• Gratitude from Blue House home-based scholars
• Land purchase
• Appreciation from Director Merab Gloria
• Assessment report for new beneficiaries
• The Blue House Boutique was back!
• U.S. board update
• Mothers' Tea for the Blue House returns

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Nyongyera (left) is 8, lives in poverty with her mother. She has been recommended to be supported by Blue House.

WINTER 2021 - PDF

• Life at the Blue House
• Postsecondary students are thriving -- To the right are 3 of the 9 Blue House young women in postsecondary ed. See page 2.
• A letter from the Board

Immaculate

Sylvia

Christine

SUMMER 2021 - PDF

• Pandemic Year Two -- Covid-19 in Uganda
• Blue House During Coronavirus
• The Farm
• New clothing arrives from the University of Minnesota
• Request for prayers and support
• Lost Forester Runs at Pine Valle
• HOPE! Blue House Boutique is returning, Dec. 2021!
• Thank yous from the Blue House​

The girls have more opportunity to learn on the sewing school equipment during the pandemic.

FALL 2020 - PDF

• What a year at the Blue House!
• Food Distribution and Keeping Connected
• Good News – Girls Return to Blue House
• Current Situation – Ever Changing
• Education Plans for the Rest of Students
• Facing Costs in the Pandemic
• The 2020 Un-Boutique

Sylvia, Mercy, and Immaculate checking each other’s temperatures upon arrival at the Blue House. In Minnesota, we’re also taking COVID-19 precautions: The Un-Boutique.

SUMMER 2020 - PDF

• Pandemic Response at the Blue House
• ​Students who joined Blue House on February 7, 2020  
• Lillian is Headed to Medical School on a Full Scholarship!
• Lillian’s story in her own words
• More Education News
• Thank you to the Blue House Board Members and Funders in the USA
• Agro-Business

Lillian, in white dress, has been accepted into medical school on a full scholarship! Shown with her aunt, Blue House Director Gloria, and school friends with suitcase award.

WINTER, 2019-20 - PDF

• Boys Join Blue House Support at Home Program
• Announcements and Thank Yous
• Home Visits
• Agro-Business
• St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church: A Steadfast Supporter
• Field Trip to Entebbe & Kampala
• Former Director Aine’s Wedding
• Exam Time for Blue House Students
• School Activities

Learning outside Blue House walls: school study field trip to Entebbe International Airport.

SPRING, 2019 - PDF

• Wear your imagination - girls’ clothing vision comes to life
• School is back in session
• Home visits make connections
• Grace Kyarikunda
• Solar panels provide improved lighting 
• Appreciations & Ovations
• Mothers’ Tea
• End of year party

Girls feeling styled up in fancy dress pants suits. The original design sketch was created by Blue House student Olivia.

FALL/WINTER, 2018 - PDF

• Field trip to Kasese
• The annual guardians’ visit
• Blue House Boutique
• Appreciations & Ovations
• Blue House BBQ

Ovia and the girls experienced the heated stones and eerie fog of the Kitagata Hot Springs, on their field trip to Kasese.

SUMMER, 2018 - PDF

• Agnes and Grace remember
• The Blue House girls now
• Volunteer opportunities
• Appreciations & Ovations
• News from the board
• Hard work yields a healthy harvest to sustain the Blue House
• Lost Forester Runs of Pine Valley
• Save the dates: Blue House Boutique
• Blue House BBQ

Safurah, Sylvia, and Angellah show off the pumpkin and squash harvest.

SPRING, 2018 - PDF

• The changing face of the Blue House girls
• Congratulations to Lillian!
• The U of M and the Blue House partnership & Web Extra!
• New designs from the U of M clothing class
• The Krohn Sewing School awards graduation certificates
• A reflection of Beatrice Garubanda
• 2017: A successful Blue House Boutique
• Christmas festivities and a visitor from the U.S.
• Lost Forester and Pine Valley Races
• Mothers’ Tea for the Blue House

The newest girls at the Blue House already have chores, like sorting ground nuts (peanuts) grown on the property.

FALL, 2017 - PDF

• Gloria: New leadership at the Blue House
• Joanne's Story: A Ugandan orphan in the United States
• Jim and Siobhán Colvin share a single board seat
• Raney Linck is new webmaster and BoD member
• New logo and website: Hope is still the purpose
• Grace, Blue House Uganda's first university graduate
• 2017 Blue House Boutique: Featuring more from Uganda
• Pine Valley and Lost Forester races
• More: photos of the girls and changes for some of them

Modeling new clothes from the University of Minnesota clothing design class.

SUMMER, 2017 - PDF

• Life at the Blue House
• Staff keep the Blue House humming
• Agnes returns as the new housemother
• Prefects help care for younger girls
• The new sewing principal
• Pine Valley Run on Labor Day
• Growing their own food
• Boutique leadership team seeks new members
• Appreciations & Ovations

The girls show off their first mango harvest -- all from one tree!

SPRING, 2017 - PDF

• When the Peace Corps came to Kazo
• About the Peace Corps
• Pine Valley Blue House Run
• Blue House Boutique
• A letter from the girls
• U of Minnesota clothing project
• Blue House staff awarded leadership programs
• Aine Abel moves on to new challenges
• Mother's Tea, May 13

The Peace Corps made learning fun. And brought t-shirts!