‘ZENA’ In June ’23 we got a call from a clinic in Kayunga district asking if we could transport a pregnant lady to Jinja for urgent review at the Referral Hospital; we promptly responded and drove far to reach her. When we arrived we found a profoundly disabled lady...

I have just returned again from my second home and whilst I am familiar with all the adjusting that has to happen when crossing cultures and privileges it doesn't get any easier. I travelled by myself for this trip as I needed to concentrate on 'admin' type work (more...

In April 2017 I was lucky enough (again) to go out to Uganda and spend time seeing how the work was going and pretending to support Yakub (though I'm sure that I got in the way as much as I helped). The Lugandan language is so alien to my ears and the little that I...

I’ve returned from yet another incredibly moving journey to Uganda. It never ceases to amaze me how a country with so many political, health and financial problems manages to put me at incredible ease. Every one of my visits is different, and that’s the exciting part...

Our wonderful friend Bev Yarwood volunteered to help Middleton Rotary Club with their Father Christmas Float collection, and in return the Club kindly donated 100 GBP to TUSC! Read the full article. Thank you to Middleton Rotary Club and Bev Yarwood for your...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Carol wrote this article in January, but due to technical difficulties we weren't able to post until now....she's already back in Uganda as I type this! It seems like an age ago but really is only a few weeks since we returned from visiting Yakub and...

Thanks to all of TUSC’s wonderful friends and supporters, Yakub is now driving new transport for TUSC! Billy bus served TUSC very well for almost 4 years, but the roads in Uganda are very trying on vehicles. Carol and Yakub researched the best type of vehicle to...

It’s hard to believe that it is only three weeks since I returned from my last visit to Uganda ….. it seems like a life-time ago, the disconnection with here and there remains as strong now as it did after my first visit 6 years ago. The first ten days were the...

In October 2013 Yakub posted a picture on our Facebook page of a sweet young girl that he had transported back to her village after she had attended the Main Referral Hospital for the treatment and dressing of a large abdominal burn-wound. As I was travelling out to...