Saturday 24^th February

We were sad to leave Kagando early yesterday morning toi travel to Mityana. The two weeks spent there has passed very quickly.

Thursday was a difficult day with a small baby dying on admission. Despite efforts to resuscitate her she died probably from the combined effects of dehydration and anaemia. But this fortunately is becoming a less common scenario as more children are brought earlier to hospital because of the support of the Friends of Kagando Children 100 scheme which is trying to engage the support of 100 sponsors to cover the costs of the admission fees for children admitted which has already dramatically cut the cost of many children’s treatment. As one mother said to us now we can bring our children to hospital rather than them dying at home for fear of the hospital bill that would result from an admission.

On arrival in Mityana we discovered there had been little rain and water in short supply but with power also being off much of the time we had mixed feelings when the hotel’s generator was switched on at 3am to pump water into one of the supply tanks

We have been to the Café the last couple of days where all seems to be running smoothly. We just need to try to get more customers calling and hopefully as the tourist numbers start to pick up this will improve the numbers using the café. The rise in tourist numbers has been attributed by some to the more unstable situation in Kenya leading to people making their Safari trips in Uganda instead. I also think the provision of a birdbath to attract the local bird life would also be an additional attraction to tourists. I’m not sure everyone agrees with me!

 Serious discussion with Phionah about a possible bird bath!

We hope over the coming week to visit Ekiwulumo where the school and orphanage is situated and also the vocational centre which some of the young people are attending after finishing school. We will be in Mityana until next Friday morning.