Our Day in Kampala

We returned from Kawete last night. It was a long ride as travellers were returning to the capital, Kampala, and traffic was very heavy.  To help pass time we actually sang songs.  It was almost like summer camp.  The three and one half days visiting Kawete and the time I spent with the children and their parents was a most amazing and wonderful time.    I saw over 100 patients from age 4 months to 65 years of age.  Hopefully they all feel better today!  Thanks to the contributions from CCLS in St. Louis and Concordia Lutheran Church we helped a lot more people this year.  We also delivered care to women for the frst time with the extra efforts of Kathy Alber-OB/GYN Nurse Practicioner!!!  We will leave many supplies behind to continue the support.  We are also contributing to a more permanent borehole well structure by helping to replace iron pipes with PVC pipes.  This will help to maintain a clean water supply for the community which is essential for good health! As Ugandans say, "Water is life".  The children of Kawete are beautiful and a joy to be with.  Even in their tremendous need they smile broadly, laugh joyfully, play freely and appreciate deeply all we do for them.  Although they have a poverty of material wealth, I feel they are closer to Paradise than I am.  Keep them in your prayers for as Jesus said "for such as these does the Kingdom of Heaven belong."

Today we travelled to a orphanage west of the capital that is supported by With God's Little Ones.  It was interesting to see more of the city and a new area of Uganda.  The children were in school.  The leader of the project, Derrick, had a 3 year old daughter Daniela who bonded with me quickly.  She was so adorable.  We visited a compound Derrick is also building to help train and teach volunteers to do service work in the area.  His work is hard but he is tireless and will do great things for the people of Uganda.  While waiting for the bus after the visit we bought a bunch of sweet bananas.  They are tiny and were so good!  I ate 3 of them.  We also went to a market area and saw and purchased some things.  My purchases are surprises so I won't report what they are!  Wealso visted a modern grocery area and bought some tea and coffee.  We then went out to dinner and now here I am.

I finished alphebetizing the chart notes from my work and will total the illnesses for the Ugandan Health Ministry report and then my work will be done for this time.  God willing I will return.