Kirsten Lalli ’11 and Caroline Komanecky ’12 are wading in the middle of a shallow, rocky stream on the outskirts of the remote village of Buhoma, Uganda.
Clad in jeans, pink T-shirts, and black knee-high Welly boots and rubber gloves, each tilts a blue-tinged 20-oz. bottle into the water and then holds it up to Professor Ellen Kraly, who’s crouching on the bank with a camera. Kraly snaps a close-up photograph of each bottle, and then the students fill small plastic vials with samples of the contents.
Using a hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) unit, Megan Snell ’12 calls out their location coordinates to Professor Peter Scull, who jots them down in a small, yellow notebook.
This water-sanitation survey project is just one aspect of a unique research and training partnership that has developed between Colgate and Bwindi Community Hospital, generating opportunities both in the region and on campus.
Read the rest of “Buhoma bonds” in The Colgate Scene.