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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 c...

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 ...

Hi - Just a short blurb, will post some photos later. Yesterday I think I saw about 50 patients in 6 hours of medical clinic outreach. Whew. One child, about a year old, was having frequent intermittent seizures in his mom's lap. Malaria. All we could do was give oral quinine and acetaminophen and refer them in for IV quinine and diazepam. A wom...

Abayudaya Youth Conference On Wed 1/07 the Jewish youth from the five villages met here at Nabugoye to plan activities, share information and elect a new slate of officers. They met in the beautiful Bet Midrash, the large airy library and study room which will be Rabbi Gershom's yeshiva headquarters. In addition to speeches by Rabbi Gershom and ...

Kavule Parents School for the Deaf Visit Tues 01/06/08 On TUesdayI visited the Kavule Parents School for the Deaf, where 5 Abayudaya youth from Namatumba (themost remote village) attend. I was brought there by Miriam, a young woman from Namatumba who is now a teacher at Hadassah Primary School (having graduated from "SK" - Semei Kakungulu High ...

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 i...

SO here is a quick entry as somone is picking me up from the internet cafe in town soon to bring me back up the hill. There are so many contrasts around here. One example - There have been tons of circumcision ceremonies of the Bagishu tribe - they take place between Dec 15 - 31 - you loook out on Mbale city street, looks fairly modern, internet...

I just want everyone to know that this is the third time I've tried to write this blog. So, if it seems skimpy on the details, I'm soory. I'm hoping that this time, the electricity won't go out again. This past weekend, Nicole and I stayed in Soroti and worked on Saturday as we planned to get ahead of our research schedule. We stayed in that eve...

Hey everyone! I survived the 2 day plane trip and my first few days in Africa! So much has happened in the last few days I don't even know where to start, but I'll do my best :) I'm staying with my group of 6 in as VERY rural village an hour outside of Mbale. I have definitely adapted to the simplicity of life here, along with Africa time...or l...