Back on a break from Uganda, we want to update you on our
last few weeks of Ugandan activities before we returned. One of the highlights was carrying out the
pilot for the Synergy Rural Healthy Living Initiative. This is really a “Team Crow” strategy, as we
combine forces! Basically, we travelled
to a rural school, where Tim and Brian took 40-50 children for a football
training session whilst Sarah was examining children, treating any minor
conditions, and arranging follow-up as needed.
Our first stop was Kasozi School, but we hope that over the coming year,
we will be able to carry out further sessions in Kazosi and then visit many more
schools, doing so on a weekly basis.
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| Brian talking to the Kasozi lads about Synergy after the session |
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| Sarah carrying out health checks as part of the Synergy Healthy Living Initiative |
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| Baby Paulo |
As many of you may know, Baby Peter (of the Triplets fame)
sadly passed away a couple of months ago from bronchiolitis (sorry, Sarah was
too sad about it to blog straight away), but his siblings are going from
strength to strength. Sarah visited them
all in their village just before our departure, and was given a lovely gift by
the babies’ grandma: a sweet new chicken, which we’ve called Petra (in Peter’s
honour). We only hope that she is more
inclined to lay eggs than Mr Magoo and Texas Pete! Paulo, in turn, gave Sarah an additional
sweet gift – a lapful of urine.
Delightful!
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| Keeping warm on the nutrition ward |
We have enjoyed giving out some lovely childrens’ hats donated
by keen knitters in SE London, as well as a charity from Scotland (Bonnie
Babies), benefitting both tiny babies on the maternity ward, and also sick
puffy malnourished kids on the nutrition ward (who lose heat very easily)
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| 900gram Gift enjoying his hat! |
We’re back for quite a while now, as Sarah has to do a
certain number of GP shifts in order to avoid being ruthlessly ejected from the
required “list” that she needs to be on (and so is foraging around for locum
shifts at the moment!). Therefore we
probably won’t be updating this blog again until the beginning of September
when we head back to Uganda.... but of course, face-to-face is probably more
interesting than reading of our exploits, so please do let us know when you are
free for a visit!
But as we sign off for the summer, let us give you one more instalment of:
BARMY BODAS!
Some Ugandans lack the money to buy a motorised boda boda, so do it the old skool way and just get a bicycle instead. Whilst it may have less power, that doesn't stop them from loading them up with just as crazy a load as you can see!
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The Ugandan version of a Piggy-Back , "A Goatie-Back!" |
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This little Piggy went to market! |
