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!