The Covid-Pandemic: closed airports, closed embassies, closed borders detains us; sec we get a green-light, we’ll be replacing local improvisations with real masks you’ve provided.
JLP Supporters donate Covid-Masks for our Eastern Congo Mission
Our home-made masks will replace local improvisations, so we can fight Covid as we did Ebola last June. Thanks to everyone’s kind efforts we’ve plenty to help soon as pandemic-lockdown releases us.
We return to the children of Eastern Congo soon
We’ll see the new classrooms, be sure Ebola decontamination materials arrived, and whatever else never forgetting the joy children need who suffer more than children ever should!
Our 5th Annual Charity Soulcycle, Sold-out!!
Success!! Our 5th Annual Charity Soulcycle, not an empty bike, Thanks to all who participated.
Our 5th Annual Soulcycle Charity Ride Feb. 2nd
Sweat it out with us:)!! John Lege Project’s 5th Annual Soulcycle Charity Ride!!
Wishing our Friends and Supporters a loving, peaceful Holiday.
Ariwara, Congo DRC: "Polaroids for Children"
Thankful we brought smiles to faces that days later dealt with Ebola. Whether we’re fighting Ebola, building classrooms, bringing water or light, Polaroids are a signature given.
Ebola: We joined the Ariwara community to stop it (Congo DRC)
When communities are involved, own the outbreak, and have what's needed, not await international response, Ebola can be stopped; our CEO and the Ariwara community proved it!!
Joy IS Soccer Shirts: Logo, Eastern Congo
For students who deal with half their family being in refugee camps, and the threat of rebels, bandits AND EBOLA, bringing them joy is as essential as water. .
Morulem, Uganda (Karamoja) Health Clinic
Staff and patients alike were thrilled to cut the ribbon and start using the new toilets-showers at their 50 year old ex-Leprosarium turned general Health Clinic.
Isoke, South Sudan: Primary School Soccer
Students in challenging environments (war, Ebola) have little recreation, except Soccer. We want to give them a sense of Team with uniforms and real balls ‘stead of plastic bags bound w/string. Below, check out our haul to Congo in May; a child’s heart is always our Mission.
Logo, Eastern Congo DRC, joyous spinning for its orphans
Joy-recreation is something the orphans of war and poverty can always use, and our Founder’s always up for initiating it during her downtime.
Our 4th Annual Soulcycle Rocked New York City
AWESOME! how our inner-city students peddled for African students in a sold-out Event.
John Lege Project's 4th Annual Charity Soulcycle Ride
Start 2019 with Charity: Sponsor a child to ride for another child in Africa, a Humanitarian Win-Win!! For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-soulcycle-ride-for-the-john-lege-project-tickets-54142055345
Refugee Camp, Bunia, Eastern Congo DRC
16,000 “Internally Displaced People” live in Camps IN Bunia town; everything’s needed, and remarkably appreciated, especially with the simplicity of children.
JLP’s CEO Candace, humbled by the JOY Plastic cups brings!
Congo DRC: Students call classmates to school via Drums
War, or no war, beating drums call children to school. The UN is gone, and no NGOs are around; we’re where we’ve committed to be, where we’re most needed.
Logo, Congo DRC Joy for children in war
War rages on between Lendu and Hema, and refugee camps litter the landscape; childrens lives’ are sad and difficult, providing Joy is a top priority of ours.
Dalasiga, Congo DRC Football
We support sports, even during this war in Eastern Congo. Dalasgia (Luma) wins 3-0 against Ariwara, 2 local towns; and Congo Independence celebration followed.
Congo DRC War: Logo School
Ituri region is at war, but our CEO brought Frisbees to cheer up students in the midst of it; water, light, yes there’s essentials with priority, but JOY can’t be forgotten either.
Namalu, Uganda: Portable Solar Light, "Waka Waka"
Where complicated infrastructure is impossible a "waka waka" provides the light needed for a child to study at night, who otherwise cannot!