The PRIME Spring Newsletter
Snapshots from a number of PRIME's tutors as they reveal some of the realities and delights of sharing whole person compassionate care across the globe... this edition includes Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Norway, Nepal, Peru, India and UK
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In this issue:
- Humility is the mother of giants - Rwanda
- Regional groups - UK
- Hope and life after prison - Uganda
- JENGA - Uganda
- Stumped - India
- Nigeria > UK > Norway
- Dreaming dreams - Nepal
- Trail blazers - Nigeria
- Perusing the opportunities - Peru
- Restore the heart of healthcare
Snippets...
"There are an estimated 7,000 street children in Rwanda, with the biggest concentration in the capital, Kigali. Local newspapers refer to the street child ‘menace' and there are regular reports of vigilante action from police and the community. In April, three street children were burned alive."
"We arrived an hour late for the start of the training because our driver did not arrive on time (he was getting the car washed…)"
"Woven throughout the training was a strong emphasis on compassion, encouraging the prison officers to see their prisoners as people, even their loved ones, instead of the crime they might (or might not) have committed."
“We are supposed to be given Form C by the place we are staying within 24 hours of arrival and without it we cannot start the registration process. The person who knew the password was “off station” and we were told would not be back before 7pm….”
“…because the principle of whole person compassionate care is as needed in Norway as it is in Nigeria…”
"One of the themes set by the introductory exposition was wondering who are the ‘unnoticed’ today and how by noticing and acting, something in the existing order or world view is changed."
"It is the only way to transform from the depersonalised, technological, insensitive, without compassion, focused only on the disease in which current medicine is practiced, for a medicine centred on the whole person, a compassionate medicine with more service vocation, closer to the patient in their pain and suffering.”
"Woven throughout the training was a strong emphasis on compassion, encouraging the prison officers to see their prisoners as people, even their loved ones, instead of the crime they might (or might not) have committed."
“We are supposed to be given Form C by the place we are staying within 24 hours of arrival and without it we cannot start the registration process. The person who knew the password was “off station” and we were told would not be back before 7pm….”
“…because the principle of whole person compassionate care is as needed in Norway as it is in Nigeria…”
"One of the themes set by the introductory exposition was wondering who are the ‘unnoticed’ today and how by noticing and acting, something in the existing order or world view is changed."
"It is the only way to transform from the depersonalised, technological, insensitive, without compassion, focused only on the disease in which current medicine is practiced, for a medicine centred on the whole person, a compassionate medicine with more service vocation, closer to the patient in their pain and suffering.”
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