THE generosity of people in the Tavistock area is being experienced by Ugandans from government level to the wilds of the countryside.

Pastor Colin Bond from King?s in Tavistock recently returned from helping to establish two cottage hospitals, one at Rwebisengo near the Congo and another at Nateete, a slum suburb of Kampala. A diagnostic centre is being set up at Port Fortal in the west.

It was made possible by the generosity of Tavistock and Plymouth, enabling a forty-foot container of medical supplies to be sent out. The church at King?s provided the funds to send the container, together with Colin and Pastor David Palmer.

David led pastors? conferences with Bishop Sadiki, in the Congo and Rwanda, undeterred by fighting around the city borders. Colin worked for five weeks in Uganda, then Kenya and Tanzania, with Princess Evelyn of the Hema people.

Colin said the king and royal family were so grateful they decided to call each hospital ward ? there are 19 rooms ? after the members of King?s.

?It was an honour to meet these princes caring for their people in exile because of the war in the Congo. Some were accommodating 25 to 70 people in their own homes,? Colin said.

Princess Evelyn and Colin then moved on to other countries, leading pastors? conferences.

Princess Evelyn then returned to the UK, where she entertained the children at Stoke Climsland School for an afternoon and later the children at KKKlub at King?s. The children learnt how rabbits got their long ears and how zebras obtained their stripes. The children also dressed in African costume and learnt African dances.