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Advent: Day 5 Judith Nyesigire

Posted in Advent, IMF Programmes, Staff, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 5, 2010 | Comments Off

This photo is from June 2008, before I came to work full-time in Uganda. Judith, in the middle, worked with the communities in and around Jinja, helping to train and support the community health volunteers. We had a very interesting day watching her interact with these volunteers and teaching them to tell others about HIV/AIDS. [...]

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Advent: Day 4 Aldo

Posted in Advent, Aldo Project, Charis - IMC Lira, tagged , , , , on December 4, 2010 | Comments Off

This photo reminds me of a special day when I had the chance to visit Joyce, one of our Aldo clients in Lira. This visit taught me that it is not just the poor that fall though the holes in the safety net (which by the way doesn’t really exist). Joyce had a good job, [...]

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The Aldo Project: Field Visit Report

Posted in Aldo Project, Charis - IMC Lira, International Medical Foundation, Patients, Volunteers, tagged , , , , on July 31, 2010 | Comments Off

Clea sends the following report: During a recent visit to Lira International Medical Centre (IMC), Kevin Duffy (CEO) and Clea Meynell (IMF Funding and Reporting Manager) spent some time with Trixcy, the Aldo Project Counsellor. Trixcy has been working as a volunteer on the Aldo Project since 2008 providing help and support to Jasper Okwir, [...]

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Aldo Project – Lira

Posted in Aldo Project, Charis - IMC Lira, International Medical Foundation, Suubi Trust, tagged , , , on July 28, 2010 | Comments Off

I’m very fortunate to have a job in which, for most days, there are parts that make me feel really good about what we’re trying to do. Yesterday I had the chance to visit with some of our clients on the Aldo project in Lira, Northern Uganda. One of these is Joyce. She used to [...]

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Bosco’s Story: Hope Ward Cancer Care

Posted in Aldo Project, Cancer Care, Charis - IMC Lira, Hope Ward, tagged on January 21, 2010 | Comments Off

Bosco is from Lira, married and has five children.  Bosco and his wife have AIDS.  He has been sick for the past two years.  He used to work as a cyclist providing lifts for fares (bicycle boda boda) and had a small ‘shamba’ for small scale farming.  However he had to give up both activities [...]

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Jinja Hands Of Help Community Health Project

Posted in Suubi Trust, tagged , , , on April 23, 2009 | Comments Off

On Wednesday 11 June 2008 the IMF team (Kevin Duffy – Chairman, Helen Lay – Finance Manager and Jemimah Kiboss-Kyeyune – Program Coordinator) travelled to Jinja to visit our HoH Community Health Project. We arrived just in time to accompany Judith (the CHP Clinical officer) to a village in Kibibi where she was going to [...]

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