11/07/2016 Tomorrow I turn 36, up to 40. The evening before your birthday used to be exciting…treating at school, putting on new clothes, receiving presents. As you get older, the excitement goes away a bit and you sometimes look up at the day with anxiety…Another year older and the years also seem to be going…

29-05-2016 UGANDA MARATHON – 5 June 2016 Hello, everyone, Next Sunday is the day, 10 km running for the department for malnourished children……strainend….. but I’m ready for it. 5 Months of training and hopefully not for nothing……. Last June the marathon took place in Masaka for the first time. It was an initiative of a…

19/05/2016 The UGANDA MARATHON on 5 June 2016 Hello, everyone, Last June the marathon took place for the first time in Masaka. It was an initiative of a number of English friends who organise marathons in different parts of the world to raise money for local projects. It was a fun day with national and…

22/03/2016 So we are another month on. In the Netherlands we say “March is stirring its tail” and that’s the way it is here. A few days very warm and after that a refreshing rain shower which we use a lot to take a shower.In the morning everyone is working in the fields again, digging…

07/03/2016 At the last minute …… but still too late for the January edition ……………….. One of my good intentions of the past two years has been to write again on my website. It seems that people still like to read about our adventures and experiences in Uganda. I even got a phone call in…

28-04-2014 Ester died, after three more days of waiting to see if she would make it, no miracle has happened. The news was texted while we were at Simon’s funeral. So it was a shitty day. Not really something you like to write on your weblog but write up air and yes it is facing…

25/04/2014 An unexpected night shift makes it possible for me to write again. Every day there are stories to tell through my head but time flies and stories fade away……Esther, our 5 year old patient, is not doing well at the moment. I am immediately under stress because in the past two weeks we have…

24/12/2013 It’s 11 o’clock in the evening, this time I’m not sitting at the kitchen table writing letters… Luckily (almost) all of them went out before the holidays and ended up safely in the letterbox in the Netherlands. I am in hospital, the mosquitoes are buzzing around me…. The only mother who was not allowed…

29/08/2013 Busy, busy, busy………………….. It looks like the upcoming updates will be written mainly at night. Apparently that is the only time to write in peace and quiet and that’s how I get through the night shift again productively. Tata Simon (Simon’s father) is snoring and Charles regularly gives a whine but generally it is…

29/03/2013 So, for the first time, a night shift in the hospital. Unfortunately we don’t have enough staff yet, so sometimes you have to jump in. The shifts here take 12 hours so there is enough time to update the administration, social contacts and website. At the moment there are three patients on the malnutrition…