Exciting days here at GWED-G. Maya left this morning, but the rest of the team remains for another week and in these final days we’ve begun developing projects for next year in conjunction with Pamela and the rest of the team. After conducting some interviews within the community, we identified HIV prevention and treatment as a recurring issue for Northern Ugandans. In the past our projects have focused on income generation through goat raising and farming, through which families are able to rise above abject poverty, and improve their quality of life, health included but not prioritized. In the coming year our focus on health equity will be more direct. The plan is to implement a program of HIV education, along with free, in-village HIV testing, and free condom distribution. Following this first tier of wide-spread education, focus will be given to HIV positive pregnant women. These women (and their husbands) will receive personal home visits with education on antenatal care. Finally, the women identified as most vulnerable from the group who received home visits will be given an income generating beekeeping project including hives, training and necessary equipment. Priority will be given to pregnant mothers and to women who have little means of personal financial support, and do not have the strength to take part in more labor intensive forms of self-support such as farming. So that’s the plan. It’s amazing how quickly things come together, and how excited we all are to get back to school and get to work.