Uganda

We spent one of our mornings in Uganda teaching safe water/health and hygiene in the shade of a big tree in a little village on the very outskirts of Mbale. Almost fifty percent of the residents there are affected with AIDS.  We met a health intern living there who is…

One of the favorite people we met in Uganda was our driver, Isma.  He has so much light in his face, and it was fun to see where all that light came from when he took us one day to meet his mother and family.  He and Emma set up…

As a preface, this really isn’t “part 1” since I already wrote about Uganda HERE and HERE, but this is the first part of what we were there to do.  I just have to say once again that I fell in love with this organization we worked with (called Family Humanitarian). …

There were lots of crazy parts of this trip. Trying to teach a whole slew of attentive students on the fly, all seated with wide, waiting eyes under a metal make-shift covering in the middle of Uganda, endless driving over dirt roads filled with gigantic potholes in our van, a frog…