Kagando Care

30/03/2025

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Jaja Children Praying I don’t talk politics on social media but I’m angry beyond words with the suspension of USAID to Uganda.Jaja day is a beautiful monthly gathering at Kagando hospital for child…

03/11/2024

Dear All, At Kagando Hospital all gatherings start and end with a prayer: at one meeting, I remember part of the concluding prayer ran “…and we pray for Sr. Rita who is always here and there doing this and that and we pray she will continue to do this…” Ha well, for better or worse, I’m continuing! When I retired from nursing and reduced my time at Kagando, from three months twice yearly to 4weeks twice yearly, I worried how I would manage to fit all that needed doing in such a short time....

Dear All, At Kagando Hospital all gatherings start and end with a prayer: at one meeting, I remember part of the concluding prayer ran “…and we pray for Sr. Rita who is always here and there doing …

13/09/2024

Technology has a habit of surprising you! This came up as a ‘memory’ from 7yrs ago. At my age I grow increasingly glad of these prompted memories😄 The video was made by Sandra Webb a lovely, generous lady, whom I’ve yet to meet, but both she and her family members have, over many years, supported the Rwenzori Community with wonderful parcels full of knitwear, toys, shoes, handmade dresses, school uniforms and much more....

Technology has a habit of surprising you! This came up as a ‘memory’ from 7yrs ago. At my age I grow increasingly glad of these prompted memories😄 The video was made by Sandra Webb a lovely, genero…

24/07/2024

Rwenzori Women for Health, together with staff from Kagando Hospital, have now visited all the Camps. There were 5 initially but two merged making it much easier to reach. As with the other Camps, the RWFH team took nails and iron sheets for the temporary latrines as well as safe water tablets, cassava flour, reusable menstrual pads, cups and plates, and other basic every day items that we take forgranted, but give such relief....

Rwenzori Women for Health, together with staff from Kagando Hospital, have now visited all the Camps. There were 5 initially but two merged making it much easier to reach. As with the other Camps, …

09/06/2024

Thank You Donors 💕🌟 When there’s hunger and barely any food to eat, and the dirty river water can make you sick when you drink it; when you are worried that you have no more clothe to tear up for use as sanitary pads and are resorting to using banana leaves, when you’re sharing a pit latrine with no privacy other than some sticks with banana leaves attached…when all dignity is gone and you have lost all, the tomorrows look bleak… it lifts the spirit knowing someone does care....

Thank You Donors 💕🌟 When there’s hunger and barely any food to eat, and the dirty river water can make you sick when you drink it; when you are worried that you have no more clothe to tear up for u…

26/05/2024

BUGHUNGU CAMP Over the past years many of us have seen on TV or social media the shocking disturbing images of displaced people living in Camps. This happens at time of war, civil unrest, natural disasters. In my mind that is what I understood a Camp to be. Until in March 2022 when rebels from DRC had attacked villages quite near the Ugandan border (c.40 minutes from the hospital.) Over 3000 refugees had crossed the border and I was told they hadn’t eaten for three days....

BUGHUNGU CAMP Over the past years many of us have seen on TV or social media the shocking disturbing images of displaced people living in Camps. This happens at time of war, civil unrest, natural d…

21/05/2024

Crossing the river to safer ground I want to start by saying a heartfelt thank you to all the wonderful donors. Together we can offer some assistance to Kagando Hospital and the team from Rwenzori Women for Health who helping those in the community devastated by the floods. Donations will also help the hospital with costs to repair their extensively damaged water system. ...

Crossing the river to safer ground I want to start by saying a heartfelt thank you to all the wonderful donors. Together we can offer some assistance to Kagando Hospital and the team from Rwenzori …

14/05/2024

These terrible floods have not made International News... they affected hundreds rather then thousands of people...it's still human suffering All photos have been sent to me by people from the Kagando Community The Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda are majestic but they can also bring great hardship. An area where poverty is raw, where reliance on the dry and wet seasons, indicating the time for planting or harvesting of crops, is vital for the survival of many families....

These terrible floods have not made International News… they affected hundreds rather then thousands of people…it’s still human suffering All photos have been sent to me by people…

11/05/2024

Urgent Flood Appeal

Yesterday I had news of floods in the Rwenzori Mountains: rivers burst their banks and landslides causing devastation with loss of life.
Kagando Hospital and community without water.

If you can please help....regardless keep this amazing community in thoughts and prayer.

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Help Rita Miller raise money to support Friends Of Kagando

24/04/2023

Dear All, I have to remember that I’m no longer working at Kagando Hospital for 3 months at a time, but rather for around 3 weeks & as one gets older one gets slower….so the answer was to cram in as much as I could, hope for the best & catch up on sleep when it’s job done ! The main focus of this trip was the health screening programme....

Dear All, I have to remember that I’m no longer working at Kagando Hospital for 3 months at a time, but rather for around 3 weeks & as one gets older one gets slower….so the answer was to cram …

24/02/2023

Read what can be achieved at 70 with determination and hard work…and a spot of fundraising for Rwenzori Women for Health on the way 😘!

15/12/2022

Children in the Rwenzori Mountains. Dear All, I finally got round to posting this blog…any longer and I’d be writing my next trip’s blog! In fact I started the Newsletter in Octob…