Alabama State Students Conduct Needed Therapy For Uganda’s Forgotten Orphans

By Reginald CulpepperAlabama State University

It’s a “bright star” for Alabama State University’s Occupational Therapy students to be actively involved in giving treatment to children in Uganda’s Home of Hope orphanage, said Dr. Susan Denham, the university’s O.T. chair.

“Making a difference in the lives of the infirm and destitute is among what ASU teaches its student-scholars to do in life, and our Ugandan O.T. team of faculty and students does that and more,” Denham said.

For more than two weeks this month, Dr. Jewell Dickson, professor of O.T. at ASU and the organizer of ASU’s Ugandan outreach program, took four gifted master’s-level O.T. students from Alabama State (Kaitland Guillory, Broghan Freeland, Lakeyn Edwards and Morgan Todd) halfway across the world to Jinja, Uganda, in West Africa at their own expense. There, they administered hands-on occupational therapy treatment to 60-plus children housed in the Home of Hope facility.Jinja is a town in southern Uganda on the shore of Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile River. The orphanage there doesn’t offer much cutting-edge equipment and facilities that are common in American O.T. clinics. ASU has helped the facility by sending students there for the past four years under Dickson’s leadership.

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