Uganda -end wk1

Uganda
Hmmm…I love this country so much already!
Ok well I went to the Aids day even at this local primary school on Friday. It was meant to be starting at 9am. Beth (an American girl) and myself were to wait for Anne (a Ugandan woman) to come in the same vehicle but she took forever to come. “No rush” she said …”its African time. They wont have started yet. If you got there at 9am you would be the only one there” once we got there she was right. It only just started.

Being a muzungu (or white person) we got to sit right near the front. We heard some amazing stats for aids in Uganda and in the Mbale district. It was pretty sad. The we had some singing and dancing and other performances…all fantastic thanks to Africans natural ability to sing and dance very well. Then a girl got up and told her testimony of her life with aids. It was so sad. In Africa it’s a myth that if a man is diagnosed with HIV positive then if he has sex with a virgin or pure girl then he will be cured. So there are many cases of young girls and babies being raped. So this girl went to visit her uncle who’s wife had just died of Aids and he raped her. She then contracted Aids and at school was terribly discriminated against. She had to eat and drink in different rooms from her class mates. Anyway she now gets treatment and looks quite healthy again. It was however a great encouragement at how this country is dealing with its Aids problem. They really encouraged only having one sex partner and also encouraged men to get tested with their wives rather than thinking its only the womans fault that someone gets aids. So they offered for 2 whole day free aids testing, free family planning (ie. Condoms) free immunizations, free treatment for pregnant mothers (as they can now stop a mother passing aids on to their unborn baby) and free counseling for sufferers.

So I met some great girls there from Uganda and we were able to talk about differences btn the west and Africans. I was also asked by a few young men if could find wives for them back in Australia (after having to let them down that I have a boyfriend.) But I quickly informed them of the possible difficulties in marrying cross culturally especially if they have never met before.

I had dinner that night with quite a few muzungus (white people) and spent the night talking to a Canadian girl that had come to Uganda when she was 22 and started work in an orphanage. She then began fostering a baby that had been found down a drop toilet and was infected with maggots and other bugs. She somehow managed to take little mark to Canada as a single mum and looked after him till now. So she is here attempting to complete the adoption process. Quite an amazing story.

Ok well I will leave it there and im sure it will be updated again shortly.
Unfortunately I somehow deleted all my photos so far so stay tuned. I will snap some more and attach them to my blog.
God Bless
Maz

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