The Equator

The weary travellers journey to the centre of the earth

May 8th 2006
Right well after being at Jinja we spent sunday travelling back to Kampala, was pretty uneventful so I though i'd skip ahead to the Monday when we left White Crest and headed to Rushere. Rushere is a community hospital located in the south of Uganda, 3 and half hours from Kampala. After picking up a few odds and ends from Kampala (food and medicine) we set off in the burning african heat. I've ... read more

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Uganda achieved independence from the UK in 1962. The dictatorial regime of Idi AMIN (1971-79) was responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 opponents; guerrilla war and human rights abuses under Milton OBOTE (1980-85) claimed at least another 100,0... ... read more

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Gareth Waring

Dr Gaz

Hello and welcome to the travel log of myself and my partner in crime, Dom, as we head to deepest darkest Africa in our quest to become doctors. Over the next 11 weeks expect plenty of gore packed stories as we travel to the south of Uganda to the district community hospital of Rushere for 7 grueling weeks. From Rushere we will be heading to Jinja and basically living it up for 4 weeks as we partake in the local pastimes and sports (although my mam made me promise that I wouldn't bungee jump). So read on and enjoy, and feel free to leave a comment.... full info

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