Hello everyone,

I hope this post finds you well.Thanks for taking time from your busy schedule to read this.
I post this letter to you so that you can have a better understanding of what Caring Hands Foundation is trying to accomplish in the small hamlet of Kasensero Uganda.
I first visited Kasensero 5 years ago after a Yale physician friend of mine invited me there to show me the origination site of the worldwide epidemic of HIV/AIDS. This is true. This village in SW Uganda is the community where the modern day plague of HIV was spawned, and it is here that Caring Hands is laying down the foundations of a new primary school to stem the tide of disease, ignorance, and spiritual darkness. The epidemiological studies conducted by various universities show that the strain of HIV virus that originated here took flight, moved up the road to Masaka, then to Kampala, onto Entebbe, and then to the rest of the world. At times when I stand in the polluted streets of Kasensero, I cannot get my arms around the thought that hundreds of millions of people are dead and dying of HIV due to the “environment” that was created in this community during the 1970s and 1980s. Kasensero is located in extreme southwest Uganda, with the Tanzanian border just a short boat ride away while Rwanda and the Republic of Congo boundaries lie a few miles to the southwest and west respectively. It is at this juncture of geography, time, and events that man’s lust for power and sex proved to be a silent explosion of death and disease that continues through today. The 1970s and 1980s were a time of tumultuous war and upheaval in these four adjoining countries. Large movements of military troops crossing back and forth amongst these borders via this small fishing community during the Idi Amin years, coupled with skyrocketing levels of prostitution, fueled this explosion of HIV infection. Most HIV experts believe that HIV or “Slims Disease” as it was known earlier, first originated in West Africa and migrated east, killingn individuals who may have eaten chimpanzees infected with an early primate form of HIV, and the virus eventually mutated to a human form leading to the death of it’s host. But the virus survived in the wilds, and it’s very existence in the remotest jungles was it’s limiting factor. All this changed in the 1980s and in a little town called Kasensero.

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