Happiest of New Years! I hope this Christmas Season joy extends throughout 2013 for you and yours and that this year proves to be blessed for you. I am writing this to send out an invitation and appeal to all who are able to join us on the Medical Missions Foundation (mmfworld.org) trip to Gulu, Uganda, planned for this coming September, 2013. The exact date has not been set yet but will be in the next month as we host the Parliamentarian from Gulu, the Hon. R. Reagan Okumu, who has been so instrumental in making Ocer Campion a reality and in assisting the Medical Mission with introductions, logistics, government approvals etc. for their trip to Uganda. He will be receiving the International Humanitarian Award at the annual MMF Gala held here in Kansas City on February 9, 2013. If anyone is interested in finding out about this organization and this opportunity by attending this event, let me know and I will forward details.

I wrote previously about seeing the pictures of our classmate Jim Murtaugh who attended his second Gulu trip last September. He carried out daily dental clinics the week that the team was in Uganda and he tells me that he will be going again this year and I am bound and determined to join him this time. So we send out an invitation to any and all alumni from Campion to join us in this venture. It is so much easier, I believe, to go on a trip like this if it is sponsored and organized by an experienced team like MMF - travel, lodgings, meals, license and visa requirements etc are al l made so much easier.

The need, first of all, is for physicians, dentists and nurses. But the team is involved in many projects - some of which are purely educational. Last year pharmacists, veterinarians, and anesthetists worked side by side with the clinical teams. First responders (firemen) taught safety classes continuously at visits throughout the community. And support staff with no medical background was necessary just to handle the long lines at the clinic and the families of those operated on. So we would welcome any skills that you can offer if you want to join us on this trip. Projects are planned around the skills of the teams and teams are being formed soon. Please contact me if you have any interest in this Mission trip. And of course, part of this trip is a visit (or more) to Ocer Campion. The language of business, education, healthcare and commerce in Uganda is English. So no foreign language experience is necessary for you. The medical students and nursing students from Gulu have been our local translators for the village people who speak only Acholi - and the contact with these students has been a worthwhile part of the program.

Please consider this,

Dave Zamierowski, Campion '60
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