What is your role with LGH?
I’m here in Uganda as a volunteer with LGH. A few of the things I do here are helping with buying the necklaces on Thursdays, observing solar cooking, teaching English class on Wednesdays and doing home visits to better know our women working in SUUBI.

Where are you from and what is the biggest cultural difference between there and Uganda?
I am from Westminster, Maryland near Baltimore. The biggest cultural difference for me is the market. At home its so easy to jump in the car, go to the nearest grocery store, and walk up and down the clean, cool isle and select my products which are neatly packaged. Here we walk or boda to the outdoor market which is very hectic. If it rains its hard not to come out of the market with mud all over you. Items are chaotically placed about the market and there is no set price. While you are looking for your products bodas and bikes are competing for space to get through, which forces you to squeeze next to the nearest shop stand praying your toes make it out in one piece. You have everyone calling for you to check out their products, because theirs is the best, and you defiantly know when you have reached the fish section of the market. I do enjoy visiting the market but I will appreciate my local grocery store so much more when I get home.

How did you hear about LGH?
My husband is in a band, called Willet, and at a festival they played at, LGH was there sharing what they do here in Uganda. I had just returned from a year in Haiti and was looking for another opportunity to serve. My husband told me about LGH and I knew that it would be something I would be interested in. At first we joked about me going to Africa for 5 months and then before I knew it I was here.

What are some of your hobbies?
I love cooking and trying new recipes. I also enjoying cleaning my home and making it a place of refuge after my husband and I both come home from ministry on the road. I like to read, play games, work in our local homeless shelter, and garden.

If you could pick your 5 dream Jeopardy categories, what would they be?
Name that musical, Name that women in the Bible, Adoption Paper chasing, Name that Christmas carol, The life of Judy Garland.