Sydney and her Ugandan Crew

Week 6

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July 5th 2017
Week 6 marks the half way point of our adventure in Uganda. We spent our week working in the Mbarara Referral Hospital on various wards including maternity, pediatrics, surgical emergency, and internal medicine. We enjoy working out at local gyms, afternoon trips to the market, and nightly family dinners. Raucous laughter can be heard frequently from our house making our residence the loudest on t ... read more

Africa » Uganda » Western Region

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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