Last few days

today is my final day here.
the last two days have been spent painting at Trinity. Carolyn, Claire, Katie and I have done murals of the water cycle, hello in many languages, a skeleton, and a flower on the outside walls of the second level classrooms at Trinity.
Yesterday we went to get supplies for the ambulance but the main medical supply store in town was still closed for stock-taking. The money for the ambulance was left with Betty, a nurse at Double Cure, who will return there and purchase whatever she feels is most important.
look for continued posts from others, including Carolyn, Cynthia, and others at Trinity and in Uganda. Thanks for reading

-Jeff

Mpigi Pics

Here is the ambulance in the village of Rwanga. About 100 people, mostly students, showed up to watch a film about HIV/AIDS and the first Ugandan man to open up about the disease. We also advertised the services that Double Cure offers.

Betty, one of the nurses, setting an IV for one of the small children at Double Cure with Malaria.

The whole medical staff of Double Cure just before we left Mpigi this morning.

Dr. Faisl and Betty at the microscope donated by Lankenau. Both Dr. Faisl and Dr. Michael were so grateful and kept telling me how incredible it was. Dr. Faisl said it is the best microscope in all of Uganda.

Happy 4th of July, the three girls and I are going to the Speke Hotel for a nice American meal to celebrate the holiday.

Mpigi

Been at Mpigi working at Double Cure since monday. Internet is almost non-existent here, sorry for the delay since last post. Carolyn, Katie, Claire and I have been working every day, painting the outside of the main building and building a volleyball court. For the first time last night we loaded up the ambulance with lots of equipment and people and drove about 30 minutes to a small village nearby called Nkonkoma (sp?), where we made a health education presentation. First we drove through the village and announced that we would be showing a free movie over the loudspeaker of the ambulance. By about 7:00 PM, just as it was getting dark, a few hundred people had showed up and we played a movie about Philly B. Lutaaya, a Ugandan man who was the first to publicly admit to being HIV+. After, Romans and Betty (a nurse at Double Cure) made a presentation about the services that Double Cure offers and about the dangers of HIV/AIDS. We did the same thing again tonight in another village nearby called Rwanga. Both were unbelievable experiences. Its great to see the amazing work being done here. Today there was an overload of patients including one who was severly bitten by a dog and a few small children with malaria. The microscope donated by Lankenau and Dr. Bonn is already being used and is a huge upgrade from what was here before. Both doctors were thrilled when they saw it. Pictures of all this tomorrow night once we are back in Kampala.