The African Adventures of Team Crow!: Signing Off For The Summer!

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.

Brian talking to the Kasozi lads about Synergy after the session

Sarah carrying out health checks as part of the Synergy Healthy Living Initiative

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!

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)

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!