So I thought I'd start this blog with a view of the taxi park.  All those small white things are the minibuses we take most days to and from work.  We take one from the hotel to these steps then walk down into that mess to find a 2nd one to take to work and do the same in reverse in the evening.  It's a madhouse down in the park so it's always interesting finding our minibus.
     Next I thought I'd show you some pictures of an outreach clinic I went to on Monday in a small town called Semuto which is about 60 Km from Kampala.  To begin with here are some of us crammed into a TASO van which we ride to all the outreach areas.  Next is a picture of Mathias, a counselor, with a group counseling session in the back of the building, which we borrow from the community health center, and set up under the trees.  Counseling and medical care takes place under these big trees and inside the building we set up a pharmacy and a small lab.

TASO STAFF IN THE VAN



Mathias and a group of clients in a counseling session



Medical staff at the tables with clients sitting in front waiting to be seen

In the pharmacy drugs are handed out through the front window

This is the traveling pharmacy set up in the building

This is the lab

And here is our van at the front of the building which we use

I won't do much of a narrative this week.  I want to show you what I did this weekend which was a trip to Murchinson Falls which included a rhinoceros sanctuary, a jeep safari, a boat ride on the Nile, a climb up the path beside the falls to the top, and chimpanzee tracking.  This was all done in 3 days so lots of activity.

The chimpanzees were very hard to photograph as they kept moving away from us either in distance or in height!  They were pretty amazing to watch as they mostly played and ate in the trees above us.  That's it for now  I love you   Anita