Thursday, May 24, 2012

Thursday, May 24th, Cafe Larem at 9:15 am We moved out of Santo and Daisy's house last evening and checked in to Acholi Ber Hotel in Gulu town. It is nice to have electricity and running water! Today Annie will continue her interviews at the hospital and will have Wao, an intelligent, thoughtful young man who is the son of Margaret, Santo's sister, translating for her. I think I mentioned Wao (pronounced "wow") before. We had dinner with him last night because there's a potential project in the works that will facilitate the government's not-to-successful attempt to reach the women of child-bearing age in the villages. If you want to read a little more about the government program you can go here: http://www.unicef.org/aids/files/Uganda_PMTCTFactsheet_2010.pdf. I won't go into the details but it is a proposal with great potential. I want to go back to yesterday to add to the story of Daisy's relative. After coming back yesterday morning to take her child, she returned around noon and began to hit Daisy and scream that Daisy and Santo were trying to kill her and the baby. Then she bit Daisy and ran down the road screaming. The neighbors came to see what was wrong. When we arrived home and heard the story I got some topical antibiotic I had and applied it the the bite wound. It was pretty bad. We will probably hear more about this when we return to Laroo tomorrow night to cook another pasta supper. I'm afraid they all love pasta so we have defnitely had a corrupting influence :-) It's now about 8:00 pm and we are at The Coffee Hut after a day of interviews at the hospital. Annie's interviews are done and she's pleased with what she's gotten. It's been a good day...

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