Having left Birmingham at 2.30am to catch a 6am flight through Amsterdam, then Kigali (Rwanda) we landed safely in Entebbe, Uganda around 10.30pm. Jeff Thompson from www.mercyprojects.com had it worse his was a 37hr journey from Los Angeles.
Uganda has seen so much improvement in the 15 years since the first trip in 1996. It used to take a couple of hours to get from the airport to the city, driving along a road, held firmly together by a mix of different sized pot holes. These days, the road is vastly improved and we were whisked to a missions guest house for an American ministry operating mainly in Sudan.
After a few hours sleep we were up and at it, in the nearly 80 degree humid heat, for a day of appointments, with www.retrak.org and www.childsifoundation.org the first working mainly boys above the age of eight, taking them off the street through a drop in centre and then transitional home and the second specialising in babies under two yrs old, who have been brought in as abandonded by police or hospitals. The staff at both places were very enthusiastic and loved to share about the work.
Through the day we were accompanied by Mark Riley, who has moved with hs family to Uganda to engage in the issue of instatutonalised care, and how it can negatively affect children. More on that to come. Tommorrow, we're visiting another home with a slightly different approach - tune in....
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