Celebration - Independence Day

yes, it's 50 years since Uganda gained its independence so there are a lot of flags here in Kampala today and cavalcades of high speed vehicles carrying visiting leaders and guests to the celebrations.

Clearly Uganda has been through times of turmoil in the past 50 years but through it all, remarkably, Kisiizi Hospital has never closed its service to patients.  Now there are some prospects of economic progress with oil in the west of the country and the recent opening of a new hydro-electric scheme on the Nile and plans for more in future. 

However, one big challenge is the rapidly growing population and giving parents the opportunity to plan and space their children must be a key goal as so many are struggling to feed and educate their children...  This is an area Kisiizi is looking at and hopes to develop in the coming months.

I don't have any photos of the celebrations in Kisiizi as I am in Kampala, but planned were a series of serious and not so serious sports events, speeches etc followed by an informal fellowship meeting in the evening...