I am so happy ... today I came to know that I can take more free luggage to Uganda than I thought. At the beginning I thought that I am allowed to take 30 kg free luggage with me. I just checked the homepage of Brussels Airline and I got at confirmed on the hotline:

I am allowed to take 46 KG free luggange with me to Uganda plus 8 KG hand luggage.

*YIIIIPPEEEEEEY*

Today I were at the tropical disease specialist.

I were vaccinated against rabies and typhus. I don't need to be worried about the Ebola virus, it is presented more dramatical in the media than it is. Then the Ebola virus onlyappeared in the areas close to the border to Congo and that's not where I am.

In two weeks I have to go to the tropical disease specialits again, then I will get the second anti-rabies inoculation together with the vaccination against meningitis.

Then I will need a third anti-rabies inoculation 1-3 weeks after the second one.

Then the specialist advises me to take a malarian prophylaxis (Lariam), which I may test in Germany, if side effects appear. If the side effects are to much, then I won't take the prophylaxis and got to the doctor immediately in Uganda when I show any sign of malaria.

Best wishes
Meike

In the last days my insurance certificate of the ADAC arrived. Now I'm health insured in foreign countries through the ADAC from 30/04-30/08/08.

It is going onwards after the booking of my flight.

Hello everyone,

yesterday I booked my flight.

I will take off on April, 30th 2008 in Bruessel (Belgium) at 10:40 am and will be in Entebbe at 10:05 pm.

My flight back will be on August 15th 2008 at 10:40 pm from Entebbe and I will be back in Bruessel on August 16th at 6:10 am.

Now it's getting closer, I'm so excited.

Meike

Hello together,

in November (9th-11th) I will take part at a workshop about AIDS in Africa.
Hopefully this is useful for me for my time in Uganda.

Maybe I can pass a part of my new knowledge then to the people in Uganda.

Meike

Another sign of life. ;)

At the moment I need to check a lot of organizational things.

Started with the flight:
Which airline do I take?
Emirates, which is the cheapest from Germany, but I need to transfer in Dubai and on the flight back I would have one night stop at Dubai? It would be allowed to take 20 kg with me.
Or Brussels Airline, which are more expensive, aber I would have a direct flight from Brussels (Belgium) and could take 30 kg with me.
I will call the airlines in front to check if they have special conditions for volunteers, what I heard from someone.

What are the special conditions for volunteers regarding the visa? Ususally a 6 months multi entry visa costs 200 € at the Ugandan consulat in Berlin. With this visa I could leave Uganda in the meantime and travel back in. E.g. if I want to visit Kenia, where friends of my parents live.

Which abroad health insurance should I take?

Which other impacts could it have?

Those are things I can think of spontaneously. Off course I need to take care of other things too, like water filter,…