Funds support with work of Leah Hopp, MPH, a member of Parkwood church. Leah is a health professional providing education and community health programs in the area surrounding Namalu, Nakapiripirit, Uganda. She provides periodic reports to Parkwood in person and via our church newsletter.

Leah has now been living and working in Karamoja for fourteen years with the OPC Uganda Mission. Previously, she had graduated with a Bachelor of Health Sciences from the University of Western Ontario and a Biblical Studies certificate from Kuyper College. After spending one year as a public health intern in rural Tanzania, she returned to Canada to work for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship's Urbana 2006 Mission Conference and also IFES's World Assembly in 2007. As a Health Educator, she started a community health program in conjunction with a mission clinic to employ six Karimojong health teachers in Uganda. They walk in pairs to teach in six villages alongside two primary schools and at the mission clinic. A Ugandan nurse now assists with the management of the team allowing Leah to conduct locally relevant research. After graduating with a Master of Public Health, she has published two journal articles and is embarking on further research in conjunction with a very well-experienced Christian, Ugandan, research advisor.

See also the website of the Uganda Mission of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church - www.opum.org/about-us/