Week ONE! touring projects

January 23th 2014
It has officially been over a week here in Uganda. I still love it here, just starting to be a bit more stressful and missing some of the comforts of home. My definition of a nice toilet has gone down, haha. Usually most places have a concrete 'box' you go into with a square hole in the ground and it smells WAY worse than a port potty, so grateful for our flushing toilets at the casa! We have been able to visit a couple places were thinking of doing projects at. The first one we went to was Zion's health clinic. We had to take a 2 hour very cramped taxi ride (about 26 people in a mini van sized car.) Then a 40 minute bod a ride (motorcycle) up this giant mountain with a very narrow trial head. The clinic only is open 2-3 days a week. There are so many people that come and so many needs to fill… Tuesday we went to a school but it didnt seem to be as much of a necessity for help as the other places we'd been. Today we went to another school that was much bigger and seemed like it needed more help, its for mostly abused kids and run by donations. . We visited a group called PDI the other day as well, they have a couple different programs there and the community is really involved and invested. So happing there would do a lot for them and is the most likely to continue on after we leave. The last thing we visited was an HIV clinic not totally sure how much we could help there, but it was very informative.

The HIV/AIDS clinic; they used to be segregated by the community. Immune systems are much lower and get sick quicker longer. They need help with their nutrition! Have a hard time getting the food. The men of the children at the mbale school don't have jobs and are a large majority who are abusive and their kids get taken away and taken to a boarding school to be taken care of.