Getting Our Hands Dirty and Eyes Opened - Week One at Rugazi Health Centre
June 4th 2016 A week ago we left Mbarara for Rugazi, the district where we will be working until June 26. I arrived at the university to catch the bus at 8:00am, not 7:00am as requested; we departed at 11:15. It took a while to load everything onto the bus, a retro Mercedes Benz about 30 years old. The strong boys heaved the girls’ huge bags onto the top, along with mattresses, cooking supplies, and other nec
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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 
