Co-operatives in Northern Uganda have invited Six Canadian Co-operative Association volunteers to help them measure their enterprises against international standards using CCA’s Development Ladder Assessment Tool (DLA). Follow Linda Archer’s exciting account of their 2-week mission working side-by-side with Ugandan co-operators as they plot the path forward for their co-ops and credit unions. The result is a snapshot of how the co-op is doing - and a set of benchmark scores for measuring progress as they grow their co-operative enterprise.

Tuesday 13 November 2012

Day 15 - Marriage and medical care

We heading back to Chegere SACCO for our last day with them.  This time we danced again and Solomon sang a Ugandan song and again performed the ‘vigorous jumping’ dance for me.  Something very amusing was that Selestino asked me if I knew of any Canadian women who would like to marry him; he was just joking but we had a lot of fun with it.  He’s also a honey producer so we had a presentation of more honey and I have a picture of him with his honey so that I can give it to any interested potential brides to show that he would be a good provider. Any interested candidates can send me their resumes.

This was our last time on the terrible road and we made it safely home so that was a good thing. 

On the way home we got a call that the German fellow that I mentioned earlier, who was with the other team in Lira, had collapsed at the SACCO they were working with and had been taken to the hospital in Lira. So we went directly to the hospital when we arrived back.  Let’s just say that we’re very lucky to have the medical system that we do.  Just getting an ambulance was an ordeal.  No one knew how to contact one and there is definitely no ‘911’ to call. Luckily John was in Lira and went to the hospital and located an ambulance but was told that he had to go the district office to request permission to have it sent out.  Then they had to stop for fuel which John had to pay for before it could head off. 

Once the ambulance issue had been sorted the medical care at the hospital was excellent and we highly recommend Dr. Pamela.  However, the hospitals don’t provide meals so we had to head out to get him some food.  

Well, so much for doing our reports tonight but we have to prepare for tomorrow so off I go to do that.

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