Mount Elgon Hotel Mbale

... I had already been for my safari - and I saw a rainbow in the sky! I took lots of snaps - of course! I will pop a couple up!<br><br>Well, I'm waiting for the next call - luckily the other doctor is still around today - so she can come and hold my hand if need be...but I will be fully on my own tomorrow! Ah!<br><br>Till next time!<br><br>

In the past few months I have finished two internships in both Uganda and Kenya. The first was working with Maji na Ufanisi (Water and Development in Swahili) in Nairobi Slums and the second was working with Women's Microfinance Initiative in a village in Uganda. Both were so great and just so different...in one I was living in downtown Nairobi and the other I was situated in the peaceful foothills of Mt. Elgon. To much to try to sum up here, so instead I will let you check out the photos and ...

Nine of us from Bujagali commissioned a matatu and traveled out to Sipi Falls in the far east of Uganda on Saturday. It's a site in the foothills of Mt. Elgon which was once the highest single mountain in Africa before seismic activity started messing with Kilimanjaro. We stayed at a place called The Crows Nest in Sipi which is perched up on a cliff overlooking the main waterfall. <br><br>We went on a ...

Ok, this is really the last entry. I am sitting the lovely Entebbe Airport Guest house, using thier HIGH SPPED internet connection!! Wow! And they had HOT WATER in the shower! The place is just delightful. Holly and I will head for the airport via their shuttle in the am, then to London. We drove to Kampala with Rabbi Gershom and some other Mbale folks today. Have you ever eated fresh roasted sweet bananas hawked ...

Friends - While I am very ready to come home and especially to see my family and friends (you all!) again soon, it is sad to leave Mbale. I have had an unbelievable experience here. Yesterday I did health education with about 40 farmers from the Peace Kawomera coffee cooperative, our wonderful growers of Mirembe Kawomera coffee! They were happy to hear that my family and community loves their coffee. We talked about diabetes ...

... hear about HIV from a health educator. They are sent for pre-test counseling about "ABC" - practice Abstinence, Be faithful, use Condoms - and any of their personal issues, including family planning. Then they proceed to the "lab" set up in one small room. Remember these are dirt floors - everything is VERY dusty. So the lab techs cover their table with paper towel, tape it on, set out their "spirits" (alcohol) and their testkits and are ready ...

... a small bit of turkey. Guests are given the organs like liver as a delicacy. Sweet delicious pineapple for dessert, some singing out under the stars, a little small discussion of tomorrow's Torah portion - lovely! I have a tape from antoher time of their lovely Birkat. The next morning we gathered for prayers. Two men from Apach, a new Jewish community of 10-15 families up in northern Uganda, joined us. I was honored with ...

... I've heard, focally worse in right upper quadrant. So with only a stethoscope, light, and BP cuff (the otoscope bulb was out on one, and the other, donated, had a battery in it from 1993 that I couldn't charge), we attempted to diagnose and treat - Samson was at meetings but his able friend Dr. Walter saw more than Idid in the same time. Quite a day!! Pics to follow, Liz\

... them at a spring or borehole tap, and carry the extremely heavy full plastic cans back. In most places around here, where there is not running water, that is the day to day incessant need that is the most unbelievably huge strain on women's lives - the ongoing need for water. Women do most of the carrying, on their heads. I think a full Jerrican weighs about 15 kilos, 35 pounds, no joke. Small girls and boys carry smaller cans. After cleaning, Rachel lights ...

Ohmigosh where to begin! This is for the medical people, mainly. Ok, last Thursday, we went to visit a friend's father who was in the "hospital" after having collapsed suddenly the previous day in the marketplace. At age 53, he was not responding to empiric treatment for severe malaria and aspiration pneumonia - by that I mean that while lying in an extremely dirty tiny room shared by an ill woman, on a torn mattress with no sheets, no oxygen, no suction, no monitors, he was ...