Just a quick entry as I'm using the computer in someone's office at the medical school. I was supposed to start working today, but my contact person is no longer here. Consequently, I am waiting to meet the new director and the others with whom I shall be working. All the volunteers are finding a need to make themselves useful without much if any direction. Hospital conditions are very primitive and access to healthcare scant at best. On the bright side, people are very friendly and polite.
I am hoping to meet someone who did a research project up north on the trauma victims of the Lord's Resistance Rebels (child sholdiers and kidnapped young girls. If I can, I shall try to find a way to travel north and interview some survivors. Will keep you posted...
I will cut and paste an entry I wrote on word some other time, when I have access to my own computer and the internet. It describes the 2 day journey to get here and first impressions.
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Glad you got there ok, things must look very different from the other side...looking forward to hearing more about your experiences. Love,
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Woody and I just read your blog ..unbelievably tragic in terms of patients and their care or lack of. Nancy you are a brave and courageous women. Woody's comment..."it really hits one when the word is coming from a friend witnessing this directly."
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It's a bright sunny morning here, although the fogs horn is bleating and your blog is so sobering. . .your blog is so vivid. . .thank you for being willing to witness such hard truths. . .Love, Niko
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