This morning we walked along the main road of Kisoro to look for a church. Within the span of two to three blocks, there were around four...

We drove to the border town of Bunagan, Uganda about 10 Km away to pay a short visit to the rebel-controlled region of Bunagana of the...

Women always seem to carry their babies on their backs whenever they work, tilling the fields, selling or buying in the market,...

Today being Thursday another convoy of seven buses carrying about 500 refugees to Rwangmangi Camp. The boarding seemed to go quite...

Overnight many more refugees arrived, some estimates put the number at around five hundred. They slept in communal tents or wherever...

Fearing for their lives and those of their children, many refugees fled with only the clothes on their back. This eighteen-year-old woman...

Last week I saw my first case of malaria. Kisoro is over 6000 feet above sea level and it is quite chilly at night and in the morning. ...

No one seems to be able to tell us how many refugees are now in the transit camp. In the morning there are a few stragglers coming to be...

Thursday mornings are for the convoy to take the DRC refugees to Rwamwanja resettlement camp, an eight-hour journey with a lunch stop at...

In the afternoon, the kitchen crews in the camp are busy cooking. The children follow me around the camp site as I walk around curious...

The Nyakabande Health Center set up by Medical Teams International is just minutes away from the transit center and this is where the...

After about 24 hours of flight and lay-over and another 10 hours of bumpy overland travel we finally arrived at Kisoro, Uganda situated...

Today is World's AIDS Day. Let us not forget the sufferers of HIV/AIDS especially those in the developing world. Last night there was a...

Kokar was to be my last destination as it was determined last night but this morning when the Chief came with his councilor the fourth...

We are now down to two people and two possible places to go for medical relief with the third possible place being Kokar. Because at the...

Previous volunteers used to stay in Liboi where World Concern has a compound right in the center of town. From there it is about twenty...

Dhobley is one of the communities that World Concern is involved in the distribution of food vouchers for about 1800 families twice a...

Yesterday we were supposed to go to Hamey but ended up in Damajale, apparently the coordinates given to the pilot by logistics were...

Happy Thanksgiving from Dadaab. Today we were to board the helicopter to go to Hamey, a village that took us about three and half hours...

The helicopter did come but we were not the chosen ones to fly to Liboi to do a clinic instead the helicopter took some of World Concerns...