With The Economist’s article “Crashing disappointment: road deaths” coming out so shortly after the accident at Kindle, we are thankful that our members of staff are not among the statistics!
One of Kindle’s two vehicles was involved in a serious accident. Clifford the finance officer, Joseph the director, and four of Joseph’s family were in the vehicle which bystanders said rolled three times before coming to a stop as shown in the photo. Amazingly, nobody was seriously injured. Four were treated and released at the local hospital, and the other two were back to work (albeit with the help of painkillers) a week later!
In a bid to keep our night guards awake with some sort of productive activity, we bought an oil press and a big bag of peanuts. You put peanuts in a 2-litre bottle on top of the press, turn the crank, and out comes oil and “press cake,” which is the peanut solids. If you then smash up the press cake it becomes nsinjiro, which people here mix into porridge for breakfast.
Training is now finished for starting cervical cancer screening and prevention at Kindle’s Katawa Community Clinic. This is a photo of the team from Kindle along with the first woman to benefit from the new instrument.
Penny being trained to use the new cold coagulator for prevention of cervical cancer. She will help to train people at Kindle later this month.
It has been a week of farewells for us, one planned and one unplanned. Continue reading “A Week of Farewells”
Henry is one of the secondary students supported by Kindle. This interview was done by Steve Cook of Equitas.
After months–actually years–of planning, preparation, and application, we can finally begin distributing anti-retroviral drugs for HIV care at Kindle. Up until now we’ve only been able to provide HIV testing and counseling on-site. Then we have been loading people into a truck and driving them to town to pick up their monthly allotments of medicine.
I’m getting ready to leave Kindle in the hands of a new director, Joseph Kandiyesa, so I’m starting to get nostalgic about my time at Kindle. About half the staff works at Katawa Community Clinic, where over 150 patients are seen every day. Here you can see the patients filling the porch and sitting in the shade outside, waiting their turns.
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