AAH Co-Founders Receive 2016 National Caring Award
On October 22, 2016, our co-founders John and Joyce Wanda joined the ranks of Mother Theresa, Pope Francis, Senator Kennedy and 58 other dignitaries as recipients of the 2016 National Caring Award. Founded in 1985, the Caring Institute works to promote the values of caring, integrity, and public service when it comes to solving the world’s problems. Read the Caring Institute’s profile of John and Joyce here. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor!
John Wanda at TEDxArlington
November 2015
AAH in the News
Check out NBC 4′s interview with John Wanda July 16, 2015! NBC 4 John Wanda Interview
Featured in the The Washington Post Magazine: Learning Experience by Tara Bahrampour. The Washington Post sent a reporter and photographer on a trip to Uganda with AAH Founder John Wanda and several other AAH Board Members and volunteers. The resulting in-depth feature article published in The Washington Post Magazine in May 2006 provides a vivid account of the impact AAH is making in Bumwalukani, Uganda.
- Additional coverage by The Washington Post:
- A Blessing for Teacher Grace: Sister School Relationship Helps a Ugandan Receive Critical Surgery, by Theresa Vargas, February 9, 2009
- A Lesson in Foreign Exchange: An Immigrant and a Local Teacher Help Start a School in Uganda, By Tara Bahrampour, February 24, 2005
Additional Newspaper Coverage
- Daily Monitor newspaper in Uganda: Making Quality Education Possible for the Rural Poor, January 28, 2009
- Harvard Magazine (add link)
- Sun Gazette newspaper in Arlington, VA: Arlingtonian Honored, September 25, 2006
- Latest Ugandan paper article (add link)
- New Vision newspaper in Uganda: Manjiya Students Get Scholarships, August 24, 2006
- New Vision newspaper in Uganda: Americans Pay Bride Price by Geresom Musamali, July 31, 2005
- New Vision newspaper in Uganda: Arlington Academy Under Weather, by Geresom Musamali, May 24, 2004
Television Coverage
- KSFY News, Sioux Falls, SD: Avera Medical Minute: Grateful Patient from Uganda, January 8, 2009
- WUSA Channel 9 News, Washington, DC: Arlington Couple Builds School in Uganda, August 4, 2005
- WUSA Channel 9 News, Washington, DC: Area Family Shows It Takes More Than One Village to Educate a Child, by Emily Schmidt, 2004
- Arlington County TV: We’re All Arlington – John Wanda, June 10, 2008
