Welcome!
16 Days Until Uganda and counting!!
Welcome to our blog! We are the Duke Chapter of Nourish International and we are going to Naama Parish, Mityana, Uganda to do sustainbale development and community health work at a preparatory school!
Naama Millennium Preparatory School was started in 2000 by Dr. Christopher Kigongo, who is originally from Uganda and has worked at Duke University Medical Center for the past 5 years. Dr. Kigongo started this school to address key issues in the Naama community including malnutrition, malaria, teen pregnancy and the growing number of HIV orphans. The school started with 70 students and has now grown to have 340 students ages 6 to 17, a third of who are orphans. We will be conducting a number of projects including performing a community health assessment, teaching health, hygiene and environmental education, setting up a school garden, starting extracurricular music, soccer and vocational training programs and installing a rainwater harvest system.
We would like to thank many people for their support and guidance including:
Nourish International
Duke Global Health Institute
Duke Engage
DeltAIDS
Our Advisors: Dr. Christopher Kigongo and Sumi Ariely
and of course our many friends and family and blog readers!!
We leave May 31st and will be keeping you updated!
Feel free to post comments, suggestions or advice - Ever been to Uganda? Have some stories of traveling in Africa? places to see? foods to try? experiences to experience? Let us know! We would LOVE to hear from you.