During the first week of May, 2008, Real Medicine Foundation conducted a training

at the Mama Kevina Comprehensive Secondary School in Tororo, Uganda.

The school was founded and is

run by Franciscan nuns.

Founder/DirectorSister Margaret

We Arrive

The school serves high school students who have been

affected by the 20 year civil war in Uganda’s north, who have been displaced by flooding, who are AIDS orphans, or who are simply to poor to attend school

otherwise.

Student Dormitories

The school matron, in charge of meals for the 200+ students and 20+ staff

New Building Construction

Students gather the materials and make bricks

for the new buildings,

Agriculture students and staff grow corn, groundnuts,

beans, and other crops in the fields surrounding the school

Shelling Groundnuts

Mama Kevina Bakers The school has received support from Holland to build this

bakery. Their hope is to provide income for

the school, and training and employment for

the students.

Although the school was given some industrial baking machines, electricity is a costly and

unpredictable factor, so some wood burning ovens have been built in a room off the back of the bakery.

Sealing the ovens with mud

Sister Grace had training in Holland and is now in charge of the bakery

We transported ourselves & supplies on the backs of these taxi bicycles, known as

“boda boda”s

Lunch

The trainees consisted of 7 teachers, the school nurse and school counselor,

2 nurses from the psycho-social ward of the local hospital, and a nurse-midwife from a rural clinic.

Trainees receive their

first acupuncture treatments

Beth Cole taught introductory yoga to the teachers, so that they could share the

practice with the students

demonstration

inspiration

The students experience yoga nidra

Group art projects with RMF supplies

Color!

Students are invited to receive acupuncture

treatments

Yikes! At first, students are very nervous

about the treatment

A demonstration with a 9 yr-old and the

actual experience of being needled soon sets people at ease.

Students filling out evaluations

Faith’s boss from Mella Health Clinic visits & receives a treatment

Brian and his sister came to live in a

compound next to the school when

their parents were killed in the clashes

in Kenya

We visited the

compounds surrounding the school

To invite local residents to receive treatments

Ear Beads for the neighborhood kids

And parents received needles

A few days later, the neighborhood kids showed off their

earbeads

Final Exam

And Diplomas!

Students’ farewell performance

Sister Margaret says some parting

words

Goodbye Tororo!