What's the dealio?

I will be traveling to Kampala, Uganda for approximately 3 months to
work in the Seguku Health Center. The Seguku village is a rural slum
community facing very serious challenges. Limited educational
opportunities, extreme poverty, malnutrition, poor basic health
services, and disease such as HIV/AIDS and Bilharzias (contracted from
contaminated water) plague these families daily. While in the Seguku
Health Center I will be participating in direct patient care such as
injections, IV starts and lab work, dressing wounds, recording
immunizations, and dispensing medication.

I will also be participating in the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Counseling
Project which focuses on providing culturally sensitive methods of
awareness and education with the goal of preventing transmission of
the disease. This project also offers assistance and encouragement to those
infected with the virus.

I have always wanted to travel to Africa to work with HIV/AIDS
patients. I am very excited and grateful for this opportunity. As
the Dalai Lama said, “We are visitors on this planet. We are here for
ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we
must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. If
you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true
goal, the true meaning of life.”