The treatment mainly bases on herb- medicines, which are affordable for the people there. There are many other very promising aspects in that project. What convinced me most, is that the coordinator of the project, Nyine Bitahwa, is one of the few Ugandans, who after a long time in Europe, has come back to his native country, to help his compatriots. Nyine is married with Astrid, a german nurse, which is able, to validate the success of the herb-medicines. One major problem at Rukararwe is, that most staff-members live quite distant from the project itself.
Bicycles are necessary.
One of these is used by Mr. Geoffrey Kawempe, the photographer and printer of the project. He has to visit all different places of the project and has to cover distances. They had the possibility,to live with the people there, to communicate and to work together with them. There is an Africa outside the national parks and the big cities, where people are living. They are not so different from us, when You get to know them.