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Friends of Kagando and KARUDEC Leadership - reports and newsletters
The Lyth's BLOG - Dave Lyth - Urologist and general surgeon, and Helen - wife and School Teacher - in Kagando from August 2009 - previously in Sierra Leone
Rachel Pagnamenta's BLOG - Rachel is a GP trainee volunteering for six months at Kagando (January to July 2011) working mainly in Paediatrics
Simon and Ann Eyre (BLOG) are a GP and Teacher respectively who divide their time between work in Eastbourne UK and Kagando. They also support work in Mityana, on the Kampala to Kasese road via Fort Portal, where their daughter is running an orphanage project
Jeffrey and Angela van Gangelen's BLOG June to October 2010 - Jeffrey is a trainee surgeon and Angela his physiotherapist wife - both from Australia

Newsletter Archive

Dr Sigrid Leilich - Medical Resident - German Medical Mission Team (GMMT) - 2006 to November 2009 - Newsletters
Maate Johnson's Micro Finance report 2009
Account of Family Holiday in Kagando July 2009 - Wot! no cockerels? - Andy, Julia, Emma and Ben Sawers
Piped Water - A success story from Kagando 1985 and 2008 - Phil Hickling - Former Trustee of Friends of Kagando
Rebecca Baldock - Physiotherapist - 2005 to May 2008 - Newsletters

Dave and Helen Lyth

David, a Urologist and experienced obstetric fistula surgeon and Helen, his teacher wife, are Friends of Kagando volunteers who have been in Kagando since August 2009. They are largely self-supporting. They were brought up and met in East Africa. Their blog is illustrated and wide ranging with information and insights including spiritual health and faith inside and outside the Kagando community. It begins during an earlier assignment in Sierra Leone

Date	Summary Contents - click box on right for full letter	.doc	.pdf
Sep 2009	First letter to family following arrival in Kagando September 2009
2007 to 2010 inc.	Link to Lyth's Blog to Dec 2010 - including time in Sierra Leone
2011 to ...	Link to the Lyth's Blog - from January 2011

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Rachel Pagnamenta

Rachel is a GP trainee from Bath in the UK who has taken a year out of her training to attend the Tropical Diseases course in Liverpool and then put her knowledge into practice in Africa. Her medical student elective was in Uganda (Kisiizi) and she had visited Kagando. Apart from some help with accommodation while in Uganda her time has been almost entirely self-funded. Friends of Kagando were happy to claim her as a volunteer!

Date	Summary Contents - click box on right for full letter	.doc	.pdf
Jan to Jun 2011	Link to Rachel's Blog

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Simon and Ann Eyre

Simon, a GP in Eastbourne UK and Ann, his wife divide their time between England and Uganda as a kind of 'wind-down' retirement! Simon worked in Kenya, at Kijabe Hospital in the Rift Valley for several years. He is reviving his African medicine methods and works mainly in Adult Medicine and Paediatrics. Ann teaches in the primary school, including acting out scenes from the bible.

Date	Summary Contents - click box on right for full letter	.doc	.pdf
Feb 2010 to present	Link to Simon's Blog

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Jeffrey and Angela van Gangelen

Jeffrey and Angela completed five months in Kagando in October 2010. Volunteers from Australia, Jeffrey is a surgery trainee and Angela a physiotherapist. Jeffrey's blog is highly readable, informative, detailed, insightful, entertaining, reflective and full of biblical, philosophical and cultural insights. Written as events happened, it provides a sympathetic outsider's view of Uganda and Kagando while in the midst of a challenging life experience.

Date	Summary Contents - click box on right for full letter	.doc	.pdf
Jun to Oct 2010	Cumulative Blog - June to October (192 pages) click on right->
	Link to the 'Surgical Mission' van Gangelen Blog

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Friends of Kagando Trustee's Newsletters and KARUDEC Director letters (top of page)

Date	Summary Contents - click box on right for full letter	.doc	.pdf
Aug 2011	Budget deficint growing; Typhoid epidemic; Specialists team; Kagando on course to become Uganda's busiest obstetric fistula centre; Electricity again; Theatre extension progress; Container volunteers needed in UK; Volunteers needed in Kagando; Donations
May 2011	Kagando 4th in national award; Theatre extension progress; New Scholarship scheme; New Medical Superintendent; Finances under strain
Feb 2011	New ultrasound machine target reached already; Kagando hosts national nurses meeting; Kagando best rural primary school; Theatre extension foundations; Electricity again; Politics and finance
Nov 2010	Ugandan doctors; School of Nursing extension opened; Electricity problems; Xray repairs needed; New Uganda import regulations; Slates for Primary School; New volley ball court
Feb 2010	Report from Dr Ralph Settatree, Trustee, following a visit to Kagando.
Dec 2009	The water supply - a success story from Kagando over 25 years.
Sep 2009	Newsletter - Friends of Kagando - Microfinance; School of Nursing Diploma; Dave and Helen Lyth; Canon Jehoshaphat moving on?
Dec 2008	Director of KARUDEC's Annual Report - including Accounts to end June 2008
Aug 2008	Report on Archbishop of Uganda's visit to South Rwenzori Diocese and Kagando in May; Celebration of first five years of 'Friends of Kagando' at Greyfriars, Reading in Jan. Directors prayer requests: Mission to staff in August; Salary increments; no cause found for increase in bowel perforations; handling private clinics opened by staff; examinations
Dec 2007	Several building projects completed; DVDs sent out; Microfinance example
Sep 2007	'Friends' birthday celebration announced-Jan 08; DVD 'Window on Kagando' published; Microfinance update
May 2007	X-ray installed; Hydroelectricity feasibility study underway
Apr 2007	X-ray and Mother's Home progress; two children per bed; Salaries on time
Jan 2007	Primary school hostel roofed; Mother's home-first rooms opened; Guest House extension progress; TB Ward converted to fistula ward-100 operations done; Computers arrive and training starts; Water project progress: Western Region Best Employer 2005 award

Newsletter Archive

NEW - Dr Sigrid Leilich, GMMT Medical Officer Sept 2006 to Nov 2009 (top of page)

Date	Summary Contents - click box on right for full letter	.doc	.pdf
2 Sep 2009	SIGRID'S LAST LETTER FROM KAGANDO - Doctors coming and going. Arrival of electricity pylons and loss of trees. Continuing equipment challenges. Encouraging Chapel and other meetings.
2 Dec 2008	LATEST - Doctors settling in. Roll-call of current doctors. One new PUBLIC HEALTH Doctor. Babies for Dr Frank and Dr Michael. Help for IT and Libraries from Florida. Nurses leaving for Government jobs. Some visitors.
25 Aug 2008	Three new doctors recruited in Kampala. I am appointed i/c Medical Ward and get malaria! (no link). One long-term medical student from Germany and one new GMMT doctor due to start soon. Babies born to members of staff. Much cause for rejoicing and thanksgiving, including for introduction to CEILIDHs!
2 Aug 2008	Start of new newsletter series; Medical staff movements; pre-interns and international medical students; challenges facing hospital; Kagando's first CEILIDH
2 Sep 2009	Sadly, this will be Sigrid's last letter as a doctor in Kagando, (unless she goes back on a new contract - it has happened before!). She returned to Germany after three years of immensely valuable and loyal service. Lots of news of new and old staff.
	LINK to Sigrid's Website (in German)

Maate Johnson's Micro Finance Report (top of page)

Date	Summary Contents - click box on right for full letter	.doc	.pdf
Dec 2009	Report from Maate Johnson of the Micro Finance Department

The Sawers' family holiday in Kagando (top of page)

Date	Summary Contents - click box on right for full letter	.doc	.pdf
Jul 2009	Wot! no cockerels? A family holiday with a difference

Phil Hickling - Former Friends of Kagando Trustee (top of page)

Date	Summary Contents - click box on right for full letter	.doc	.pdf
1985 and 2008	First and second visits to Kagando - with a gap in between The water suupply - a success story

Rebecca Baldock - Physiotherapist at Kagando (AIM) 2005 to 2008 (top of page)

Date	Summary Contents - click box on right for full letter	.doc	.pdf
7 Aug 2008	Back home in UK; merger of SADICH and RAPCID; setting up support network in UK
7 Jul 2008	Final goodbye to Kagando; stressed cat in car; tools and a workshop
26 May '08	Preparing to leave
10 Apr '08	Bukonzo - naming of children; Doctors getting better at booking patients for visits by specialist; a girl with ostemyelitis
6 Mar 2008	Preaching at passover; Ceri and crafts
6 Jan 2008	Convert Leprosy ward to Rehab.-early discussions; Outreach funding was for past, not future; Ebola virus was confined to original district; Enid has a baby girl
19 Dec '07	Notes on other charities and missions supporting work at Kagando; Ebola blogsite address
5 Dec 2007	Ebola at Bunbudgyo, the district north of Fort Portal - 72 cases suspected, 18 deaths
30 Oct '07	Church life in Uganda; growing environmental awareness in Uganda; rumours of haemorrhagic fever
3 Oct 2007	The new specialist physician; problems with local 'bonesetters'; organised walks on Rwenzoris near Kilembe mines; local remedies and witch doctors
3 Sep 2007	Social problems and disability; Harriet - midwife i/c Maternity; Chaplain Gideon; Surgeon and Superintendent Frank; goodbye Joanne
12 Aug 2007	Big game in Queen Elizabeth National Park
1 Jul 2007	Leprosy patients party; a leprosy tutorial
13 May '07	Outreach program; coping with reduced allowance; funding for outreach program?
7 Apr 2007	Plastic surgeon and Orthopaedic surgeon visit; Jovia recovering from head injury
18 Feb '07	Enid's (house help) Bukonzo wedding; free wheelchairs - wheels for the world
10 Jan '07	Losing play therapy trainees; Chapel library planned