A Drone’s-eye View of Uganda Our first-ever mission trip is history. And it was a great success! Dzintars, our official mission trip photographer, hoped to use a drone to record the activities of our Ugandan care team as they partnered with two physicians and ten medical students,...
Few (if any) of the wellness club members in Kitsolima village have heard of Twitter, but if they were able to huddle up and tweet a message to the world, what would they tweet? Tweet 1 Kitsolima thanks U.S. and U.K. donors for water! Two weeks ago, the...
Ourganda is engaging the culture and changing the world in western Uganda! How? We are bringing clean water and the Living Water of Jesus to three villages. One village, Kitsolima II, has a new rainwater collection system that is just now filling up with fresh water for the very...
What Ourganda has done for this community is what we call image change.” Those are the words of Doreen, our superstar team leader, as she left the village of Kitsolima II on Thursday. Two 10,000 liter rainwater collection systems had just been installed in a village...
The Toyota Land Cruiser our team uses to take medical care into the villages was stolen. We know where it is (if you want the full scoop, more details are below), but we need to replace it as soon as possible while we work to...
If your mom is still in your life, you’re going to do something special for Mother’s Day, right? Whether or not she is, how about giving a mom in Uganda her very first pair of shoes? We could easily be overwhelmed with all of the needs in...
Clean water is the foundation for good health. How does a child stay hydrated without clean water? How does a mom cook or wash clothes? What good are reusable hygiene kits if the young women have no way to wash them? Why would a person brush...
I always start the day with a big glass of water (maybe you kick off your day with hot coffee). Glass in hand, I stand in front of the kitchen sink, turn the faucet, and fresh, clean water pours out. After breakfast, I jump in the shower and stand...
Uganda is a small country, about the size of Oregon. Yet non-communicable diseases kill about one million people in Uganda every year. Where do we start? Bundibugyo is a forgotten region far from the capital city of Kampala, hidden on the back side of the Rwenzori Mountains next to...
Thatched roofs sat on top of mud-and-sticks frames like toupees, combed to near perfection. Our Toyota van succeeded in taking us far off the paved road back into the distant village of Kinyante IV. But its undercarriage had constantly scraped along ruts and rocks on the...