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We’ve now left Kuluva and we’re almost ready to come home (tomorrow hurray!). Last week we did bush clinics/missions with a group of amazing Americans (or USAidians as they love to be known!!!) lead by the famous Kipp Cheek and Spanky Rouse (they even have funny sounding surnames!). It was a fantastic week and easily one of the highlights of our time in Uganda. Koboko was a very remote town north of Kuluva right on the border with Congo and Sudan (we could see both countries from the clinic sites). We were the doctors for the medical team with 3 nurses, a physiotherapist, a paramedic, an optician and a pharmacist. We went to four sites where the Ugandans wanted to plant new churches and served the community by putting on a medical clinic whilst the local church did ministry in the village. Over the week mission more than 3000 people heard the Gospel of Jesus and hundreds became Christians! For Pete it was like a dream come true finally doing real bush clinics in tents or on shop verandas with bed sheets to make our consultation rooms! In four days we treated over 750 people providing free medicines, glasses, walking frames and wheelchairs. It was a privilege to see people who were crippled from polio crawl in on their hands and knees leave overjoyed in their new wheelchair. There was so much need we couldn’t always help everyone and it was heartbreaking when we ran out of wheelchairs but the people never complained and were so happy with knee pads –incredible, it really makes you think about how lucky we are and how much we take things for granted in England. After the mission we travelled back to Entebbe with them via Murchison Park. We had such a great time and such much fun and laughter with our new friends from North Carolina it was really sad to say goodbye but hopefully we can meet up again soon and work together again!!!! This last week we’ve just been chilling in Entebbe whilst Pete’s also been frustratingly filling out his job applications for A&E training from an internet café with regular power failures! We spent a few days visiting our friends Katharine and Rob at the River of Life children’s home in Masaka (two hours south east of Kampala). The project is run by Pastor Duncan and Mary and works with street children taking them into the home, loving them and putting them through school and university. We had a really fun day with all the children with a trip to a lake for swimming – the children didn’t leave the water all day! Well today’s our last day so we’re looking over our time here trying to come to terms with everything that we’ve been through and seen over the last six months. We can’t wait to come home but know that we’ll find it difficult to leave everything behind and settle back into life in UK We’ve got a few weeks at home before we start our full time diploma at Liverpool so we catch up with many of you then. We want to thank everyone again for your continued support and prayers and thank God for being our constant comforter, counsellor and provider throughout our time here. With Love Pete and Em x

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