Bulletin No. 2, 2011

28   Chinese University Bulletin No. 2, 2011 Experiencing Life under the Equator T his year, 15 students of S.H. Ho College experienced a summer like no other. They went on a trip co-organized by the College and the Watoto Child Care Ministries. Led by Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung , CUHK Vice- Chancellor, and Prof. Wong Kam-bo , Dean of Students of the College, the team went to Uganda from 6 to 19 July for voluntary service, offering medical services to orphaned children and vulnerable women, sponsoring and assisting in building a student dormitory, and paying visits to various children’s villages, babies’ homes and women centres.
 Uganda is one of the poorest countries in the world. After years of civil conflict, the country is in desperate need of economic development and reconstruction. About two million of its population of some 30 million are orphans. Every year, more than 64,000 people die of AIDS. Watoto is a holistic care programme providing trauma-counselling and rehabilitation, reconstructive surgery, HIV/ AIDS treatment as well as formal and technical education for children and abandoned women in Uganda. Led by Professor Sung, five medical students