After a heavy rain down pour, a team of two Whisper staff, Emmanuel and Mutaasa in the company of Tomek - a volunteer from Poland , set off into the village The purpose for the campaign was to reach out to families heavily suffering with jiggers.
At exactly 4:55pm along our way to Namakooko, we paid a courtesy call to on of the most recently treated Geoffrey Mondo, Geoffrey was formerly as abandoned young man majorly due to his epilespy condition that impaired his brain immensely. Because of this, he lived a very unhygienic life that eventually saw him terribly infested by this very painful blood sucking parasite. Thanks to be to the Whisper Team that reached out to his rescue. Geoffrey now lives a jigger free life. Immediately you enter Geoffrey's room you will not miss to see the lovely bed - which he never had before -, mattress, bed sheets and mosquito nets hanging over his bed , all items cheerfully donated to him courtesy of Whisper, The Worlds Orphanage Fund.We then spent about 30 minutes at Robert's home where we found a young 17 year old Diana, at first sigh any one blind would clearly see that sweet face, Diana seats motionless next to the cooking place, she looks very miserable. All her fee are covered iwth lots of sours, purse from lots of untreated wounds and over 30 jiggers eating her feet up. The team picked out all the jiggers from her fee, treated her wounds and Tomek bought her some shoes to protect her vulnerable wound openings form further attacks.
Others treated included 28 year olf Bawande Joash (a sugar cane cutter) in Namakooko village and little Naigaga Rose age 10, belongings to Mr Silive Kibiikyo also of this village.
At exactly 7pm in this neighbourhood we come across 9 year old Isabiry Manten that also is in a similar conditon but beucase of time, we are to see him at a later date.
As a prevention of any other infections, we provided children with shoes.
Costs Involved:
Shoes: 6.000Sh
Whisper Team included:
Emmanuel Mugabi and Mutaasa Ayob
