Sometimes, a simple gift; a wheelchair, a meal, new clothes accompanied by love can transform a life.

During a recent visit to the Mulolo hospital, the staff’s demonstration of gratitude and Thanksgiving inspired me.

“In the family medicine residency program at Vanga, I learned medicine and surgery, but I never mastered delivering a baby in the dark,” stated Dr Arnold, medical director at the Baptist hospital in Mulolo. As we sat under the moon on that cooling evening, we noticed the night watchman’s solar flashlight bobbing around the hospital and turning our direction.