Mission to Uganda

 

Kathleen's Service in Uganda

 

 

 

Kathleen is a great young lady with a passion for helping people in the name of our Lord Jesus.  I have been blessed to play a small role in her preparation for a mission to Uganda.

 

 

 

 

Child Voice International

 

ChildVoice International is a non-profit organization seeking to restore the voices of children silenced by war. ChildVoice acts on the conviction that children broken by war can be restored in safe communities with loving care, spiritual and emotional counselling, and effective education and vocational training.

 



Kathleen's Work

Kathleen is a nursing student and saw an opportunity to serve God with her skills and education.  This is her second short-term mission trip to Uganda and this time she worked in a rural medical clinic, dressing wounds, testing for malaria and examining patients.  The people she served while in Uganda are those affected by the long civil warfare in that nation.  Many of her clients are former child soldiers or others victimized by the bush war.

 

 

 

 

Training for the Mission 

 

I worked with Kathleen in 2010 when she went to Africa the first time.  She knew that she would be in a rural setting and that she would be on her feet a lot.  We worked on her overall strength and she walked a brisk 6km almost every day.  This summer, Kathleen and I were only able to train for a few weeks before she left but we worked on overall muscular strength and some cardio-vascular conditioning.  She prepared herself for hard days of work living in very hot conditions and eating a diet strange to her (warthog).   She did a lot of free weight training and a lot of work on her core.

 

Success

 

Kathleen did very well.  She stayed healthy throughout her mission and was able to serve casualties rather than become one herself.  Her dedication and committment to the people of Uganda is a testament to her faith to those she served.

 

 

 

 

Tom

 

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