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Travels in Uganda A Journey to the Human Spirit

Travels in Uganda A Journey to the Human Spirit. Presented by Kay Kobbe Supported by Kids for World Health And the Sandpiper Fund, Inc. Africa…. We are born to different parts of the world, each of us with a life to live. What is it that we do share?.

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Travels in Uganda A Journey to the Human Spirit

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  1. Travels in UgandaA Journey to the Human Spirit Presented by Kay Kobbe Supported by Kids for World Health And the Sandpiper Fund, Inc.

  2. Africa…

  3. We are born to different parts of the world, each of us with a life to live

  4. What is it that we do share?

  5. Children discover an injustice and lend voices to Truth

  6. KFWH educates others about neglected diseases

  7. Dr. Jean Jannin provides treatment to a sleeping sickness patient in Bodo, Chad

  8. Murray Avenue KFWH Chapter sponsors a “Water Walk” to understand what it is like to carry 20 lbs. of water for one mile! KFWH speaks about its mission to the International Scientific Council on Trypanosomiasis in Uganda

  9. The most powerful part of the journey was finding the Human Spirit…

  10. Kids for World Health Pediatric Clinic in Lwala, Uganda

  11. Remember me… Village Life

  12. There are real people with stories as important as ours to share

  13. KFWH builds “Hope, Progress, and a Feeling of not being forgotten”

  14. To accept the setting was not enough at first to accommodate the shock of extreme poverty

  15. Lwala Hospital

  16. A church stands tall in the center of the compound…. providing nourishment and community

  17. Sister Sam with her journal offers her stories

  18. Catherine Adyango, Hospital Administrator

  19. A Hospital Ward Lwala’s doctor Andrew Edelieu

  20. Operating Table Scrub Sink

  21. Ether machine Operating Equipment “Diagnosis can be a matter of coincidence”

  22. Lab technicians at work with one outdated microscope

  23. Arriving at the hospital with a sick family member from miles away

  24. Fourth stage Sleeping Sickness patient is being treated with Melarsoprol, a mixture of arsenic and anti-freeze 18% do not survive this form of treatment

  25. Patient recovering from surgery without adequate pain medication

  26. Children are suffering with Malaria

  27. More than anything, Anna wishes to live long enough to raise her eight children.. Life expectancy averages 39 1/2.

  28. “I only see life as having been difficult”-Maria Agaro

  29. “Sister” Betty.. Director of Nursing in Lwala

  30. Children were taken in the middle of the night to fight as child soldiers

  31. What is Joy?

  32. What is fear?

  33. What gives Hope?

  34. What inspires?

  35. “I wish to raise the level of my Life.” Student nurses at the hospital..

  36. Seniors imagine an educated life with meat to eat and shoes to wear

  37. Students sweeping the dirt in the compound

  38. Girls weeding and digging for tubers

  39. We are the same at the core

  40. Millet and beans for lunch and dinner.. 300 plus days of the year

  41. Living in a thatched -roof hut….

  42. Squatting in a hole, shared by the community…

  43. Cooking over open fires… all gave opportunity to experience more direct empathy

  44. A mother’s pride…a common theme that identifies us as humans.

  45. What is our responsibility as partners in humanity?

  46. What can we imagine for all the world’s people?

  47. Imagine….

  48. “Life is important for all people, rich or poor.” Kids for World Health

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