"I was sick and you looked after me."
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Uganda Trip - Jan. 2025

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Westminster Medical Missions 2025 Uganda Mission Team Report

On Saturday, January 25,2025, our team of ten left for Northern Uganda for the 32nd year of Westminster Medical Missions trips. The 2025 Westminster Medical Missions Servant team members were Dr. Bill Harden, Becky Harden, David Duritza, Cynthia Gary- PA-C, Liz Myers, Sarah Rodes PA-C,  Susan Alston, Clyde Davis, Sherri Walker R.N., and Brock Swanson.

 

    

         

We bought and packed hundreds of bags of giveaway food that included handmade bags, sugar, beans, oil, posho and soap. We were able to give food bags to all patients in the children's ward (with toys/sweets) as well as the maternity, surgical and medical wards. We even had time to paint fingernails and toenails on the wards and on many of our hut visits. This year we saw homemade dolls out of mud.

 

                           

                                                  

                                                      

A continued highlight was our daily hut visits. Hut visits included those needing clothing or food; those whose huts had been burned or in very bad need of repair or replacement; or orphans with no visible means of support except for their neighbors. We gave jerry cans filled with clean water and serving utensils when needed. We were again privileged to be the giver of new clothes, toys and sweets, balloons, soccer balls homemade jump ropes, blankets, hats and money and as always rubber band bracelets. We not only gave bags of food to be prepared later, but food for immediate consumption.  

We went to a Babies home, a dispensary, the AIDS clinic as well as hut visits.  We gave much needed medical supplies to the dispensary and money for a new water sensor for the Babies home as well as many clothes and toys.

                 

                         

                                                                

                                                         

                                             

                                                                  

                         

 With Susan and Liz's leadership we were able to hold a children's camp- This year Liz had gotten small back packs were given out as well as soccer balls.    

                                  

                                                        

 

                                            

                           

We supported the surgical camp this year. I was able to talk with families who were so happy that their family member could have surgey that they otherwise could not afford. We had approved ninty patients for surgery. Of theseforty-nine patiets showed up and forty-three of these has surgery. 

                                       

 

We thank each of you for your continued support. We ask for your continued prayers as we continue to do the work that we feel God has set before us. This may have been Becky and my last trip as leaders of Westminster Medical Missions. If God allows, we may go back next year but time will tell. It has been an honor to be involved with this work that I truly feel God has called me to be a part of for so many years. Thank all of you for your support.

 

Doctor Bill Harden, Team Leader