The Safe House

A special dispatch from VPI’s community partners in Papoli, Uganda
By Emmanuel Ofumbi

The safe house is one of the strategic objectives offered by the ROBERT H . COOLEY Pediatric clinic of Papoli Community Development Foundation. This is a place where the most unprivileged children below 5 years who are also either HIV affected or infected are brought and showed love, safety, respect and placed on a good nutritionally upright diet as compared to the home situations of hunger, insults from community, torture , disrespect and being too much over worked.

Carol Adikini, a 3 year old stays in Pakamalug B, a village in Papoli parish. Their home is just one kilometer away from the pediatric unit and she stays with her grandmother and not her parents although they are alive. This young girl joined the safe house one year ago on basis that she is HIV positive and her home is one of the most unprivileged living below the 2 dollar per day earning standard earning.

Carol Adikini playing with a friend at the unit

She poses near their house