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.
Author: wiskotonij
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Road to Hope Success Story
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...
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Sharing the Light
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...
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Kat’s Journey on the Road to Hope
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...
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The End Has Come!
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...
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Moving Fast!
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...
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Last Week in Uganda!
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...
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End of the Day!
January 31, 2019 – My day is coming to an end. I feared the week would be slow since the ending of the camp, but that’s been far from true! Yesterday I went with Rose to Mulago School of Nursing in Kampala. The educators who had been in training to teach students in the Advanced...
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Children’s Camp
January 30, 2019 – Let me just say I’m not going to complain to you about being too hot here in Uganda! Sorry! I wish we could send you some heat. I hope all of you are keeping warm and remaining safe. We are thinking of you! I’ll send some pictures of the Children’s Camp...
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Tuesday!
January 29, 2019 – I thought today I’d give an example of an exercise from the Empowerment Retreat while also talking about one of the students I have followed over the years. Her name is Jackline. I first met Jackline several years ago with the initiation of the Road to Hope Program. She and her...