On Saturday a crew of ONE staff left for a week-long trip to Uganda and Rwanda. Several are sending in posts to the ONE Blog throughout the trip, so I’ll do my best to get them up a.s.a.p.

Below, updates from our own Josh Peck and Kimberly Cadena.

Saturday, 5:47 PM

We’re off.

We’re sitting in Dulles Airport waiting to board our flight to Uganda. Margaret (on the left) is emailing her family using Katherine’s phone because she dropped hers in the toilet.

We’re really excited, but we’ll see how that holds up as we make our 20 hour journey to Entebbe.

-Josh Peck

10:30 pm Sunday night

The ONE team has just landed in Entebbi, Uganda. After making it through customs, grabbing our bags and looking for the first lost item (Josh Peck is down a jacket), we boarded a bus and headed to our hotel.

It’s going to be an early night, because at 7:00 am tomorrow morning we’re heading to a TASO facility. We’ll meet with the staff, all HIV positive themselves, that are treating people in their community with the virus. We’ll also be joining them on some home visits in the afternoon.

We’ll check in again after the morning briefing to give you more details about the day ahead.

P.S. Our bus driver is wearing one of the first white ONE bands!

- Kimberly C adena

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