This week the whole of the Uganda team joined our colleagues from Rwanda and South Sudan for three days of security training at a hotel in Entebbe. We covered a lot of useful information in the three days looking at the equipment and planning needed for a trip up country, communications and risk assessment as well as more extreme situations such as car jacking, abduction and coming under fire. We also had a full day of first aid training.
The three days culminated in an afternoon doing exercises ranging from assessing and dealing with casualties following an 'explosion' in the office to driving around in 4 wheel drive vehicles dealing with road blocks and kidnap attempts to all diving for cover when one of the trainers threw a half full water bottle and shouted 'grenade'!
All together a great opportunity to get to know my colleagues better, training on a completely new subject and lots of fun and laughter.
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