Travels in UgandaTravels in UgandaA Journey to the HumanA Journey to the Human Spirit Spirit

Presented by Kay KobbePresented by Kay Kobbe

Supported bySupported byKids for World HealthKids for World Health

And the Sandpiper Fund, Inc.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?

Children discover an injustice and lend voices to Truth

KFWH educates others about neglected diseases

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

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

The most powerful part of the journeywas finding the Human Spirit…

Kids for World Health Pediatric Clinic in Lwala, Uganda

Village Life

Remember me…

There are real

people with

stories as important as ours to

share

KFWH builds “Hope, Progress, and aFeeling of not being forgotten”

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

Lwala Hospital

A church stands tall in the center of the compound….providing nourishmentand community

Sister Sam with her journal

offers her stories

Catherine Adyango,

Hospital Administrator

Lwala’s doctor

Andrew Edelieu

A Hospital Ward

Operating Table

Scrub Sink

Ether machine

Operating Equipment

“Diagnosis can be a matter of coincidence”

Lab technicians at work with one outdated microscope

Arriving at the hospital with a sick family member

from miles away

Fourth stageSleeping Sicknesspatient is being

treated withMelarsoprol,a mixture ofarsenic and anti-freeze

18% do not survivethis form of treatment

Patient recovering from surgery withoutadequate pain medication

Children are suffering with

Malaria

More than anything,Anna wishes tolive long enoughto raise her eightchildren..

Life expectancyaverages 39 1/2.

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

“Sister”

Betty..

Director of Nursing in Lwala

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

What is Joy?

What is fear?

What givesHope?

What inspires?

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

Seniors imagine an educated life with meat

to eat and shoes to wear

Students sweeping the dirt in the compound

Girls weeding and digging for tubers

We are the same at the core

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

Living in a thatched -roof hut….

Squatting in a hole, shared by the community…

Cooking over open fires…all gave opportunity to experience more

direct empathy

A mother’s pride…a common themethat identifies us as humans.

What is our responsibility as partners in humanity?

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

Imagine….

“Life is important for all people, rich or poor.”

Kids for World Health