I hopped on my 1st MAF flight yesterday, flying to Pader in northern Uganda - hurrah! On the flight was Joshua Kyallo, country director for AMREF and his colleague Diana. AMREF is a medical organisation which serves and assists at the government hospitals. The hospital/health centre in Pader serves more than half a million people in the area, so the medical care they provide is so valuable.
We then continued in the small Cessna 210 through the heat and haze on the shorter hop to Gulu, where we picked up 3 people who work with Watoto Childcare Ministries. One of the workers, Carl, works in trauma counselling for children. With the area only recently recovering from long-term conflict with rebel groups, the work they do must be again so valuable.
