NGO status

I turned in our paper work for NGO status again today and most likely we will be approved next Friday! I'm pretty happy about it.- Lori, Feb 5

Adventures in researching health care

I attempted a visit in the childrens wing at Jinja Hospital and ended up being the pharmacist an hour and a half later. - Vanessa, Community Health Initiative Director

"Did he just hit on me"?

Random guy outside the Department of Health in Jinja, "You are looking very good! What have you been feeding on?" ahahaaha! I give him 2 points for originality. - Vanessa

Rain

The rain visits Jinja in sporadic torrents, at times as briefly as the flash of lightning that streaks across the skies. Feverish, this parched earth waits, beckoning the dust settling, life giving showers, "please, you are most welcome."- Rini

Sick=No Fun

Uganda. flu. bed. week. weak. fog. not functioning. sucks...After 2 bedded weeks, back in the land of the living and back to development in Uganda ; ) -Rini

I love my work!

"I love my work! One day, I'm teaching the most beautiful children, later developing a project, capacity building, and today, evaluating programs on the ground, working with deaf children. Best part: all the hugs I get, then, all the things I learn. It is going to be very hard to get me out of Uganda."

"Grateful to be working with the most compassionate and humblest of people who respond to poverty, scarcity and injustice by empowering their communities."

"How can I explain the joy that fills my heart when the beautiful orphans rush to welcome and embrace me? "Come share our food. Come let me show u... " They say. If only I could find a way to fit 1, 2 or 10 of u sweethearts into my pocket, bring u home and love u forever."

- Rini

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving-atop an opulent hill overlooking the indescribable beauty that is Lake Victoria and its verdant surroundings. Humbly thankful for being privy to wonders that never cease.