well here goes for part 2 of uganda.
I don´t think we mentioned the babys home in part 1. We visited the babys home a few times in our stay in uganda. It is called watoto, bulrushes babies home and has only been open since january 2007. Already, it has 37 children in this home. Most the children have been left at the hospital or dumped in the city. There was one child who had been dumped in a cemetry and he was only a week old and had HIV. While jay and I were there on our last day, 2 girls were dropped off as there mothers had just been sent to jail. The children are so well looked after and range from 1 day old to about 3 years old. They kids are happy for you to play with them for as long as you can. Jay and i became quite attached to a set of twins, their names were zac and zoe. They were beautiful and cried everytime we put them down which was a little bit heartbreaking. Unfortunately you cannot adopt children from uganda unless you have lived there for 3 years, otherwise I think jay and I would be on our way home with them already! Jay also had the pleasure of being spewed on while we were at the babies home as he was feeding the kids too quickly! He really like the smell of the spew and was worried he was going to as well in sympathy, so we went and bought a new t-shirt for him (he still needs a little practice)!
On the last few days in Uganda when we were still in gulu, our host, Apollo came down with a dose of malaria. He was very ill and couldn´t even travel back in the car with us as the aches and pains were too much. He was admitted to hospital when he finally got back and we went and visited him the following day. Lets just say that i would never want to get sick in uganda ever. He was in an éxpensive´ clinic but it was very basic to say the least. No food is provided and it is up to your family to come and take care of you. Basically they only provide a drip and a very basic bed. No fly screens on the windows or mosquito nets over the bed and therefore you could get malaria again even though you are being treated for it. We saw apollo 2 days later and he was still in the same clothes as no hospital clothes are given out either.
I think thats it for now......spain here we come!!!!!
I don´t think we mentioned the babys home in part 1. We visited the babys home a few times in our stay in uganda. It is called watoto, bulrushes babies home and has only been open since january 2007. Already, it has 37 children in this home. Most the children have been left at the hospital or dumped in the city. There was one child who had been dumped in a cemetry and he was only a week old and had HIV. While jay and I were there on our last day, 2 girls were dropped off as there mothers had just been sent to jail. The children are so well looked after and range from 1 day old to about 3 years old. They kids are happy for you to play with them for as long as you can. Jay and i became quite attached to a set of twins, their names were zac and zoe. They were beautiful and cried everytime we put them down which was a little bit heartbreaking. Unfortunately you cannot adopt children from uganda unless you have lived there for 3 years, otherwise I think jay and I would be on our way home with them already! Jay also had the pleasure of being spewed on while we were at the babies home as he was feeding the kids too quickly! He really like the smell of the spew and was worried he was going to as well in sympathy, so we went and bought a new t-shirt for him (he still needs a little practice)!
On the last few days in Uganda when we were still in gulu, our host, Apollo came down with a dose of malaria. He was very ill and couldn´t even travel back in the car with us as the aches and pains were too much. He was admitted to hospital when he finally got back and we went and visited him the following day. Lets just say that i would never want to get sick in uganda ever. He was in an éxpensive´ clinic but it was very basic to say the least. No food is provided and it is up to your family to come and take care of you. Basically they only provide a drip and a very basic bed. No fly screens on the windows or mosquito nets over the bed and therefore you could get malaria again even though you are being treated for it. We saw apollo 2 days later and he was still in the same clothes as no hospital clothes are given out either.
I think thats it for now......spain here we come!!!!!
1 comment:
Spew hey...well we are soon to provide you with our very own spew machine! Please feel free to come and catch the falling glory (or is that gory) as often as you want (Please read 'often as you want' as 'always').
Glad to hear you have been having a good time. Hope spain is all its cracked up to be. Just remember not to wear too much red...might end up with a you know what up your you know what...if you get my drift.
See Ya,
-marti-
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