Week one passes so quickly. The days are long as they are book-ended by a 30-40 minute drive to/from our hotel to the Disability Centre. Yes that’s right I did say hotel. The CEO wants me to come back next year, so I think he’s breaking me in gently. There is an accommodation block for… Read More »
So normally the down-time comes after a few weeks, or months into the deployment, but not this time. After 2 pretty long flights, on the first of which I left my glasses (doh!), we arrive at Entebbe Airport on Lake Victoria. After getting in the wrong (aka slowest) line for immigration, we collected our bags… Read More »
After 18 months in Haiti, my ‘time out’ seems to have been very short as I now find myself in the North-West of Uganda, at the Hope Health Action (HHA) Disability Centre in Bidi-Bidi, once the worlds largest refugee camp, as a result of conflict in South Sudan. With travel taking essentially 3 days each… Read More »