Hi everyone!!! So we finally have ALL our luggage and I don't think I have ever been so grateful for clean clothes before in my life!!! Lauren and I got to experience Ugandan public transportation as we had to go back to Kampala on Tuesday to pick up and sign for the luggage - lets say I will never complain about the CTA again.
Wednesday we had lunch w/ Collins and his colleague who he partners with in a firm in Arua and went to the office around 5 when Grace and the kids arrived from school. Took lots of pictures again and attempted to brush up on my Luo. We met Collins father and one of the ladies who lives in the complex also showed us some photos (Nathan, a lot of them were pictures of Stella growing up, it was great!)
I also gave a brief tutorial on the 35mm cameras to some of the staff but it didn't last lng as it got dark pretty quickly.
We are planning on having a "staff" meeting Friday morning then going to the National Park Friday afternoon to Sunday morning, we hope to be back Sunday in tme for the ordination of one of Grace's relatives!
We are planning on visiting some of the kids schools and their homes next week, which I am very excited about and we hope to get some more documentation in with our camcorder as we had electricity last night and was able to recharge it.
Until I came here I never really realized how common Malaria is. We have come into contact with three people who have contracted it within the last week. It's kind of mind-boggling how relatively easy it is for "us" to protect ourselves against it with the use of our malaria meds and mosquito nets - and how available these items are back in the USA where malaria isn't a risk at all!
We semi tried to organize our room last night and compiled all of our meds into a bag - it's just kind of strange to think of all the resources that is so easily available to us, and we have so much of it! I guess meds for malaria and HIV/AIDS are supposed to be free or easily accessible except the corruption here is horrible and those who most need it, such as the ones who live in the IDP camps, rarely have access to such meds. Most clinics actually don't care any medications at all. The people from Iowa that we met that had opened up a clinic north by one of the IDP camps said that the health department was shocked that they actually carried medications.
Another problem that people run into is that the on;y medications that are usually available are the herbal remedies. Dave and I actually were able to peek into a store that sold some local remedies. There were bottles lined up on dusty shelves with labels underneath - the "medication" literally looked like they were water with some food coloring put in.
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