during the first week of may, 2008, real medicine foundation conducted a training at the mama kevina...
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During the first week of May, 2008, Real Medicine Foundation conducted a
training at the Mama Kevina Comprehensive Secondary School in
Tororo, Uganda.
The school was founded and is
run by Franciscan nuns.
Founder/Director
Sister Margaret
We Arrive
The school serves high school students who have been
affected by the 20 year civil war in Uganda’s north, who
have been displaced by flooding, who are AIDS
orphans, or who are simply to poor to attend school
otherwise.
Student Dormitories
The school matron, in charge of meals for the 200+ students and 20+ staff
New Building Construction
Students gather the materials and make bricks for the new
buildings,
Agriculture students and staff grow corn, groundnuts,
beans, and other crops in the fields surrounding the school
Shelling Groundnuts
Mama Kevina Bakers
The school has received support
from Holland to build this bakery. Their hope is to provide
income for the school, and training and employment for
the students.
Although the school was given some industrial baking machines,
electricity is a costly and unpredictable factor, so some
wood burning ovens have been built in a room off the back of the
bakery.
Sealing the ovens with mud
Sister Grace had training in Holland
and is now in charge of the bakery
We transported ourselves & supplies on the backs of these taxi bicycles, known
as “boda boda”s
Lunch
The trainees consisted of 7 teachers, the school nurse and school counselor,
2 nurses from the psycho-social ward of the local hospital, and a nurse-midwife from a rural clinic.
Trainees receive their
first acupuncture treatments
Beth Cole taught introductory yoga to the teachers, so that they could share the
practice with the students
demonstration
inspiration
The students experience yoga nidra
Group art projects with RMF supplies
Color!
Students are invited to receive
acupuncture treatments
Yikes! At first,
students are very nervous
about the treatment
A demonstration with a 9 yr-old and
the actual experience of being needled soon sets
people at ease.
Students filling out evaluations
Faith’s boss from Mella Health Clinic visits & receives a treatment
Brian and his sister came to live
in a compound next to the school
when their parents were killed in the
clashes in Kenya
We visited the
compounds
surrounding the school
To invite local residents to receive treatments
Ear Beads for the neighborhood kids
And parents received needles
A few days later, the neighborhood kids showed off their
earbeads
Final Exam
And Diplomas!
Students’ farewell performance
Sister Margaret says some parting
words
Goodbye Tororo!