I wish you could have been with me last week. You couldn’t have stopped smiling for a very long time. Every summer, a bunch of medical students from Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences in Yakima, Washington, travel to a developing country and serve in a rural...
Here is some big news: We purchased a 4-wheel drive van! Our website Ourganda.org is live! Photos of our van are on our new website. See if you can find them! We purchased the van in Japan and are having it shipped to Mombasa, Kenya, and on to Uganda. The van was...
I had to check my glasses the first time I visited Nyakasohe, a zero-income village in western Uganda near the Congo border. Was I dreaming? Had I fallen into a time machine? The only hint that the year wasn’t A.D. 121 was an occasional tin...
Our plan is as simple as 1-2-3. Hire a master medical team. Send them out to remote villages in a mobile medical clinic. Save lives. While the plan is simple (not to mention exciting), the execution of it is a bit complicated. There are a thousand i’s that...
Say both words out loud: Uganda. Ourganda. The people who live there are precious. We care. We become their brothers, sisters, friends, and partners so that they aren’t alone. When we think Uganda, we think Ourganda.The entire country is about the size of Oregon. The scenery is...