One of the really fun projects we are doing right now is The GEM Foundation playground. The GEM Foundation is a home and a safe space...

The EMI-Uganda office celebrated it's 20th anniversary this May! It is such a huge milestone for the office and we had a blast getting...

As we wrap up T1-2023 it feels oddly similar to end of T3-2022. I have quite a few large and looming deadlines to finish. There's...

One weekend in May I was invited to judge the first annual Uganda Junior Championships hosted by the International School of Uganda. My...

I feel like I blinked on the new dorm and classroom blocks for Empower International Academy and we've already started going vertical!...

Ants- You just kind of get used to living with ants here. My Ugandan roommate says that here you just co-exist with the ants. In the US...

The office breaks into small groups on Wednesday mornings for discipleship groups during the first hour of the day. This past few months...

Before I left the US, I had a coaching friend send me an Instagram video about this group called Kataka Arts and told me to look them up...

A few weeks ago we got a call from the EMI South Africa office that they looking for a civil engineer to join them on a project trip to...

Bright and Early We left Gutu around 5:30am and braced for the battle with the pot hole roads. It felt like a completely different road...

I had always agreed with the statement Crossfit puts out that “The Open is for Everyone”. I truly believe the Open is about the...

A few weeks ago we took a day trip down to the equator. The town near Kayabwe created a tourist stop along the equator line with a...

We had the ground breaking for the construction of Empower International Academy - Phase 2 in early February. We are extremely grateful...

Every term, each of the interns has an opportunity to go on a ride-along with one of the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) pilots for the...

In January I got the opportunity to go on a project trip with EMI to the Rift Valley Academy in Kijabe Kenya. Rift Valley Academy (RVA)...

Happy 2023! I got to travel to Dubai to spend some time with my parents and celebrate New Years. My parents and I were supposed to meet...

How is it already Christmas?! Wow! We kicked off the season with a trip to the Friday craft market up by the national mosque. This has...

How does one sum up a year that began asleep at 8 pm in bed with Covid and ended watching fireworks through the silhouette of the tallest...

After being here about 4 months now, there are some things my fellow interns and I have learned the hard way and if you are thinking...

Aaaand just like that my internship term is now complete! Where did time go?! It's hard to imagine that 4 months ago, after a crazy...

We had the great privilege to attend the wedding of one of our coworkers at The Pines in Mukono district this past weekend. Isaac and...