ANGAL, UGANDA
Reportage in the Angal Hospital, in North Uganda, where the Alur community lives.
July 13th, 2010
"Angal" project interview on illywords.com.
July 1st, 2010
"Angal" project published on Valori Magazine (Download the PDF).
May 25th, 2010
"Angal" project published on National Geographic Italia
These pictures are part of my reportage of the "Open Hospital" project by the non-profit organization Informatici Senza Frontiere (Computers Without Borders) supporting the St.Luke Hospital located in the Angal, North Uganda.
Angal.
Cassava tuber is the main source of sustenance for the
Alurs of Angal.
Pangarasio Ringe with his 83 years surpasses considerably the average ugandan age. He lives with his 3 sons and together they farm 20 goats and cultivate a Cassava field.
Jakuma, 12 years old.
He lives with his grandmother Cecilia because he lost his parents and family though AIDS. Jakuma is brave and with the help of antiretrovirals he goes to the school near the village.
In spite of AIDS he wants to become a doctor when he grows up.
Cecilia, 67 years old, grandmother of Jakuma. She lives on the little Cassava the field can offer and that her grandson sells in the market. She dreams of buying two goats for herself and Jakuma a dignified funeral.
Margaret. In the computer laboratory developed in the St.Luke Hospital by Informatici Senza Frontiere.
The Ajoga is the healer of the village and wields her power with the help of the spirits and medicinal herbs.
Mother with her son in the Children’s Ward.
Brian, 1 year old. Infected by malaria and severe pneumonia.
The Women’s Ward of the St.Luke Hospital in Angal.
The Children’s Ward. The queue of mothers waiting every morning to visit the doctor.
Amany, 19 years old, an outpatient of the HIV clinic.
Ceka Anifua, 26 years old.
She is in the terminal stage of AIDS.
This photo was taken and published at her explicit request.
Mother with her son in the Children’s Ward.
The Women’s Ward.
Patricia Awekonimungu is 13 years old and an orphan. She takes care of her 4 little brothers. Her name in Alur language means “I live for God”.
In the hospital Informatici Senza Frontiere has installed a network of computers with internet access and has developed an open source software called "Open Hospital" to digitize and optimize the organization.
This software allows them to do what is standard in the West:
- Manage an archive of the patients (before they used a big paper register and was impossible to find a person's medical history).
- Obtain health statistics (to be sent to the Ugandan Ministry of Health).
- Control medical resources (medicine is hard to find in Uganda).
For more information about this project, contact me or visit the site of Informatici Senza Frontiere.
July 13th, 2010
"Angal" project interview on illywords.com.
July 1st, 2010
"Angal" project published on Valori Magazine (Download the PDF).
May 25th, 2010
"Angal" project published on National Geographic Italia
These pictures are part of my reportage of the "Open Hospital" project by the non-profit organization Informatici Senza Frontiere (Computers Without Borders) supporting the St.Luke Hospital located in the Angal, North Uganda.
Angal.
Cassava tuber is the main source of sustenance for the
Alurs of Angal.
Pangarasio Ringe with his 83 years surpasses considerably the average ugandan age. He lives with his 3 sons and together they farm 20 goats and cultivate a Cassava field.
Jakuma, 12 years old.
He lives with his grandmother Cecilia because he lost his parents and family though AIDS. Jakuma is brave and with the help of antiretrovirals he goes to the school near the village.
In spite of AIDS he wants to become a doctor when he grows up.
Cecilia, 67 years old, grandmother of Jakuma. She lives on the little Cassava the field can offer and that her grandson sells in the market. She dreams of buying two goats for herself and Jakuma a dignified funeral.
Margaret. In the computer laboratory developed in the St.Luke Hospital by Informatici Senza Frontiere.
The Ajoga is the healer of the village and wields her power with the help of the spirits and medicinal herbs.
Mother with her son in the Children’s Ward.
Brian, 1 year old. Infected by malaria and severe pneumonia.
The Women’s Ward of the St.Luke Hospital in Angal.
The Children’s Ward. The queue of mothers waiting every morning to visit the doctor.
Amany, 19 years old, an outpatient of the HIV clinic.
Ceka Anifua, 26 years old.
She is in the terminal stage of AIDS.
This photo was taken and published at her explicit request.
Mother with her son in the Children’s Ward.
The Women’s Ward.
Patricia Awekonimungu is 13 years old and an orphan. She takes care of her 4 little brothers. Her name in Alur language means “I live for God”.
In the hospital Informatici Senza Frontiere has installed a network of computers with internet access and has developed an open source software called "Open Hospital" to digitize and optimize the organization.
This software allows them to do what is standard in the West:
- Manage an archive of the patients (before they used a big paper register and was impossible to find a person's medical history).
- Obtain health statistics (to be sent to the Ugandan Ministry of Health).
- Control medical resources (medicine is hard to find in Uganda).
For more information about this project, contact me or visit the site of Informatici Senza Frontiere.