CommunityKagamba
A clinic under the trees, for one Saturday
A head teacher on lending his school compound to MANCO, and what he saw from the staffroom window.
Mr Ssekandi has been head teacher of a primary school in Kagamba for eleven years. When the local health team asked if MANCO could use his compound for a Saturday clinic, he said yes before they finished the question.
"A school belongs to the community," he says. "On Saturday, the community needed it."
Desks on the grass
The team arrived at seven with a car full of boxes. They carried classroom desks out onto the grass, set up registration under the mango tree, and turned the car boot into a pharmacy.
By nine o'clock there were more people in my compound than on the first day of term.
He watched from the staffroom window for a while, then came out and started directing the queue.
What stayed
The children talked about it for weeks, he says. Some of them had seen a nurse take their grandmother's blood pressure. One girl announced she would be a midwife.
He has asked MANCO to come back every year.
