From Nsonga, with love!

Friday March 22nd 2019

This morning we were up and ready for breakfast by 8am which in Africa time meant we ate at about 8:30 haha. Today was our first clinic day at Nsonga which in apart of Hoima. We held our clinics at the church of God there, everyone was so kind and welcoming! We got all set up and as we started we gained some extra translators that helped us so much! Savior, David, and Belief, as well as Annie and Olivia who had traveled with us. We got the chance to meet some incredible people today the ones that stood out to me were Beatrice who is 6 years old and has cerebral palsy. She was with her dad who just loved on her and it was so touching to see. It was amazing getting to see her see when her new glasses were put on her face. Then there was little Brenda who was about 7 years old and she was so sweet and she has Down syndrome. I got to work with her when she got to visual acuity she had a very apparent lazy eye and would hardly look at me, so I got closer to her and started wiggling my two fingers like a bunny this made Brenda laugh and she started to copy what I was doing which was reassuring as this meant she could at least see even if it wasn’t well. Another person that stood out to me was Agnes who is in her 20’s and has clubbed feet. At first I didn’t really notice because she was sitting in a chair waiting for the visual acuity station but then when it was her turn she scooted herself to the ground and crawled over to me. I ended up asking her through translator if her knees hurt from so much crawling but she just laughed and explained she has done this her whole life and it didn’t bother her, she said still lives a great life thanks to God.
We were right next to beautiful Lake Albert for our clinics and with the change in location we noticed a change in weather. It felt like it was about 10 degrees hotter than the last place( okay maybe this was a little dramatic haha). We got to experience a dust storm during our clinic which made us stop everything right where we were, the dust whipped through the church making it nearly impossible to see. Then it began to downpour, our amazing drivers Sunday and Moses ran outside to cover the vehicles when they came back in they were soaked and said it felt like golf balls. We sat there for about an hour before finally just shutting down for the day as all the sun light was gone for the day and that was essential for our clinics. We had a light dinner of chapotis and fruit at the church that we enjoyed with dim lighting that came from generators. We ended up leaving the church for our guest house somewhere between 9-10pm and got to the guest house about an hour later everyone was beyond exhausted so I did devotions and then we all hurried to get showers done then headed to bed in anticipation for the big day ahead tomorrow.

- Molly Angelo

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