I had an eventful weekend! On Saturday, I went to Sports Day at Gabi’s school. The events consisted of some dances, relay races, and other fun activities. Ritah and I even got to participate with Gabi for one of the events. It was so cute seeing all of the little kids competing and having such...
The past few days have not been too busy at PCAU. I have finished my documentation project for the moment, so Mark (PCAU’s Programs Manager) has been giving me some other projects to work on. PCAU and the Center for Hospice Care (CHC) have a scholarship program for nurses, so I have been organizing their information...
A lot has happened since I last checked in! On Tuesday morning, the PCAU staff had a meeting to talk about their goals for this upcoming quarter. I was present at the meeting since I will be here for a chunk of that time. I enjoyed getting to see the plans that they have to...
Thank you to everybody that joined us for our Journeys in Healing art auction. It was a great evening, with over 100 people in attendance.
I wanted to start out this update by letting you all know that there was NOT a rat in my kitchen like I said in my last post! I left the girl next door with my kitchen key one day and she went in to clean out what we thought was a rat. I am embarrassed...
Hi, again. The past few days have been very productive here at PCAU. I finished going through all of the children’s files for the Road to Hope Program. Lydia (PCAU’s Social Worker) and I are formulating a plan as to how to move forward. I have shared some ideas that I had on how to...
Hi Everyone, my name is Kat and I am this year’s intern working with the Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) in Kampala. I am a student at Notre Dame, and found out about PCAU through a Hospice course I took at the University. My main role going into this internship was to help restructure...
It’s hard to believe that this is my last day in the office. I can assure you, the PCAU staff works hard. Things do not flow as smoothly as they do in the U.S. and I sometimes wonder how I would cope with working here over a long period of time. I acknowledge that I...
February 5, 2019 – This week is moving along faster than I anticipated. It’s almost the end of the work day. I met with Lydia, the Coordinator of the Road to Hope, completed a lot of filing and drafted some reports on the Retreat/camp. Yesterday I took George to school along with Jaffer, the driver. We...
February 3, 2019 – My weekend has been busy, and I’ll only summarize some highlights! I’m up early today after hearing Saint Mary Kevin School waking up the boarding students (5:30 A.M.) who have already arrived to begin another school year here in Uganda. It sounded like they were beating a tin can with a...
