We are getting very excited as our daughter Ruth is coming out for a visit to Kisiizi arriving in Kigali on Good Friday with her friend Chloe. They recently organised a fund-raising coffee morning for Kisiizi and it went very well. Will be SO good to see Ruth again and they will be with us in Kisiizi for the Kisiizi Hospital Diamond Jubilee celebrations at which the Archbishop of Uganda and Mrs Doreen Sharp, wife of Dr John Sharp who was the first doctor when Kisiizi started in 1958, will be Guests of Honour...
But we do get some breaks...
Hanna enjoying a stroopwaffel from the Netherlands...
We managed a few days away to Bwindi and had a lovely walk up a hill not realising we would see across to the volcanoes. The one in the photo is actually in Congo... beautiful!
Click on the link for Kisiizi Hospital website and you will find the latest newsletter detailing many of the activities going on here...
Hanna is, of course, very busy as a Senior Midwife spending much of her time on Labour Ward which tends to fluctuate from being busy to being frenetic! Some women come in late with complications which can be challenging.
But as well as her "day job" Hanna also helps in many ways. Sometimes she heads out driving a hospital ambulance to collect women in labour from community health centres. These may be half an hour drive away on rough roads (we have murram roads which is a type of gravel which is "graded" with a machine intermittently... but not often enough sometimes so can be rough).
Ian is off to Kampala on 20th March to attend some meetings and to give a talk at the Uganda UK Health Alliance / British Medical Journal conference on work being done in Kisiizi including innovations for patient care and Stre@mline, the IT system we are developing. It's going to be rather an unusual week as will also attend receptions at the Swedish ambassador's residence on Tuesday and the British High Commisioner's residence on Thursday so should be interesting.
But we do get some breaks...
Hanna enjoying a stroopwaffel from the Netherlands...
We managed a few days away to Bwindi and had a lovely walk up a hill not realising we would see across to the volcanoes. The one in the photo is actually in Congo... beautiful!
Looking further ahead we are hoping our son Mark will visit in May and we are due back to UK at the end of June ready to host the CMF Developing Health Course in July. Ian's right hip is needing replacement from over use so not sure of timetable yet...
thanks for all your prayers and encouragement, sorry we have been so busy we haven't updated the blog for ages, but don't give up on us! Do read the Kisiizi newsletter in the link above to see the range of ministries Kisiizi runs and you will see why life is full.
We send our love and best wishes for Easter... may the wonder of it be fresh for us all this year.
