Over the weekend, we decided to go to Lake Nabugabo with two of our friends from Kitovu Mobile. While there, Peter and I went swimming and played beach volleyball with some other people who were at the lake, while Madeline and Eileen relaxed under a palm tree chatting with Betty. We also all walked through […]

May 14-18: This week, the four of us began working on our long-term project that we will be doing for the rest of our time at Kitovu Mobile. On Monday, we met with Stephen, the head of the Orphans Dept., and Charles, the deputy director, and discussed what exactly we would be doing for the […]

Weekend May 11-13 This weekend, the four of us travelled to Kampala where we met up with a connection of Peter’s, and explored the city.   We left on Friday around 10 AM.  At the bus park in Masaka we were fortunate enough to have found our way on one of the larger buses known as […]

After a busy first couple days in Masaka, we had a much needed relaxing first weekend. On Saturday, Paul gave us a wonderful tour of Masaka, and then we watched the Liverpool FA Cup championship. After a disappointing loss, we all had many Niles (a Ugandan beer) to console ourselves – well mainly to console […]

woah, so here we are…IN UGANDA. today is now day 7 and so much has happened already! we’ve been having spotty internet so we haven’t been able to share any of our experiences with you yet so let’s start from the beginning…. after the many hours of movies, awkwardly sleeping next to strangers, and surprisingly […]

well hello there, we are this year’s globemed at northeastern’s GROW team and will be traveling to our partner, kitovu mobile aids organization, in masaka, uganda…TOMORROW! as we finally finish the seemingly never ending process of packing and anxiously await our departure, the reality has far from set in. the four of us (madeline, tyler, […]