The Asayo’s Wish Foundation embarks today on a trip to the orphanage in Kaberamaido, Uganda.  If it’s anything like the trip last March, they will spend nearly two days transferring from plane to plane before arriving in Entebbe in the south, then take a bumpy seven-hour ride northeast to Kaberamaido, sharing the dirt road on the second half of the ride with pedestrians, cattle, and bikes.

When Asayo’s Wish staff went to Uganda in March, the 160 children were moved from a small mosque in the center of town to a safer, more spacious home on the fringes.  They were seen by a medical team that had come along from Vassar College, Connecticut College, and Oregon.  The Trivani Foundation provided them with school supplies and bunk beds.

The group embarking today will check on the children, inspect the accounting and construction, implement a long-term HIV/AIDS prevention program called Stay Alive, install plumbing and electrical wiring, and take steps to register the foundation for international adoption.

I will be in communication with the group from my post in Washington, DC.  Forthcoming posts to this blog will detail their plans and update you on their progress in the coming days and weeks.