{"id":3111,"date":"2019-06-12T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2019-07-11T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:59:44","slug":"drake-university-students-and-faculty-visit-reach-out-mbuya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"Drake University Students and Faculty Visit Reach Out Mbuya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Drake.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Drake.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Drake-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Drake-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption><em>A tour of the clinic area in Mbuya<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On\nThursday May 23, 2019 Reach Out hosted a group of students and faculty from\nDrake University and Makerere University Business School (MUBS) on a day\u2019s\nexcursion focused on the understanding of the running\u2019s of the medical and\nsavings groups functions of the organisation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amongst\nthe activities that the guests partook in, after viewing the latest\norganisation documentary, was a tour of the three Reach Out facilities of\nMbuya, Banda and Kinawataka were the students got to witness firsthand how\nclients are handled when they come in for care at the facilities. Thereafter,\nthey were taken into the communities to meet with the young mothers involved in\nthe Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) program introduced to them by\nReach Out as a way to manage their savings and keeping economically empowered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trip\nwas concluded with a tour of Acholi Quarters, a community inhabited by the\nlargest population of Reach Out clients, many of whom hail from the war-torn\nNorthern region of Uganda, who got to exhibit some of their handcrafts that\nthey sell to sustain their families. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his\nappreciation, Mr. Glenn McKnight, a faculty member from Drake University\ncommended Reach Out for the medical care and support it lends out to the\ncommunities it ministers, and pledged to continue spreading the word of the\ngood work the organisation does wherever he went. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is\nthe fifth year in a row that the group of students and faculty from the two\nUniversities (Drake and MUBS) have visited Reach Out Mbuya. The first visit was\nin 2014. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday May 23, 2019 Reach Out hosted a group of students and faculty from Drake University and Makerere University Business School (MUBS) on a day\u2019s excursion focused on the understanding of the running\u2019s of the medical and savings groups functions of the organisation. Amongst the activities that the guests partook in, after viewing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}