Friends Day November 2010 13 November 2010
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Nancy and Wanda meet up again
Kisiizi Friends Day – always interesting things to hear. Never just a chin-wag for old chums. Again it has just met (6 November), again at Greyfriars Church, Reading,
This year Sr Nancy came from Kisiizi to tell us about the Psychiatric work she was involved in. Readers of this blog will know that she and Sr Wanda collaborated form a short while on psychiatric outreach as part of the Public Health programme Wanda was trying to put together. Just having national members of staff at Friends day s essential from our perspective. Kisiizi is not about white well-wishers but nationals leading in the work of public health, acute medicine and other evidences of God’s care for humanity.
Children with Disabilities 16 July 2010
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- Cursed kid? Or child of God?
Disability Visiting in the Hills
As well as public health, Wanda has been involved in disabilities support too. She has been able to give a more holistic training to the Rehabilitation Worker. Because of the theory-practice gap that is common in The Hospital, Wanda has been going out with the Rehab worker and providing on-the-spot training while seeing children, practical training. This meant regular trips out into the hills on the back of the rehab motorbike with their kit tied on at the back
Children In Rural Uganda 31 May 2010
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Small child carrying water pots
In this post, I would like to give you some of my thoughts and observations regarding the disadvantages that small children face here.
Play and infants
I don’t often see small children playing with each other. They will be in the company of older children, under their feet almost, while they randomly stand around, hitting at tree leaves with pangas (machetes), fighting with each other and pushing each other. Now and again, though I do see scenes of imaginative play. Such a scene of an infant playing imaginatively.
Public Health – The First School Visits 25 October 2009
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- Children at school, no uniforms, no shoes
Well, you don’t have to go a long way out of Kisiizi before things become very threadbare indeed.
Schools are scattered across the hills all around. Out of view among the hillside, unseen until you are on top of them. The objective of visiting the schools was to test salt for their Iodine content as part of an initiative to reduce iodine deficiency disorders (IDD). IDD can lead to a lower IQ, and mental retardation.
