More in Gulu

Yesterday Kate went to volunteer at Lachor Hospital for the afternoon. It's 4km from St Judes Orphanage. I went into town and then came back to the orphanage and decided to go meet her at the hospital. I didn't realize it was 4km away and asked someone if it was possible for me to get there on bike.

"Yeah yeah you can ride, it's not far."

Okay sweet, so I started out. That was the stupidist thing I've done; it was midday and I rode 4km in the hot sun! I kept thinking it was just around the corner or just down the street...that's what everyone kept telling me. I got so hot I had to sit in the shade for a while just outside a little shop across from the hospital.

If you ever come to Africa, please don't ride your bike 4km in the hot sun :( not a smart thing to do :(

Anyway I'm fine :)

So I finally got to the hospital and asked around for Kate. Someone brought me to her; she was in the maternity ward and really surprised to see me. There was a newborn baby all wrapped up and lying down on a bench. Kate said "I just delivered this baby!"

I was like what?!
Yep; she actually helped deliver 2 babies in three hours! Woo go Kate :P

Today I had a tour of Watoto Ministries. The pastor, Joe, is heaps cool. He drove me up to the Children's Village which is about 20km out of town. The whole area used to be rebel territory in the war. We drove past an IDP camp too.

Watoto is doing some amazing things. They have soo many acres of land to build homes on. Each home has about 8 children and a 'mum'. And then the village also has other 'mums' who look after and support the mums, if that makes sense. So it's a really good family atmosphere. They're constantly building new homes and also looking for ways they can become self-sufficient. Recently they were able to aquire 6000 acres of land to grow food!

Exciting things are happening all the time. It's definitely an amazing ministry. They also have a ministry called Living Hope which helps HIV positive widows, teaching them trades and they're planning on setting up an adult literacy school. The pastor drove me past some more land where they're planning on setting up a Babies Home and also a good school.

Kate is at Lachor Hospital again today. Tomorrow we're going to visit the Invisible Children office. It's been really cool to check out the different organisations and ministries around and see what everyone is doing.