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Many years ago I used to bring small groups of troubled Britons to Uganda to help with some of the charitable construction work that we were doing deep in the rural communities in South West Uganda. The idea was that (as well as building structures for schools, water tanks, medical centres and maternity units) these failing yet entitled Europeans would learn just how lucky they were to be born in a developed country and gain an appreciation of where they ranked on the global opportunity league table. It worked in about 50% of cases and lives were transformed for which I am immensely grateful to God and the communities that we bothered!  One of the first stops after the airport in Uganda was Mulago Hospital, the National Referral Hospital, and then a place of such misery and despair that it regularly brought allegedly hard British men to tears. It was a calculated move to start to reset the victim status that is so embedded in some Westerners. From Kampala we would head to the village where they would stay and help to build a medical centre, then a maternity unit, and finally a small hospital that we hoped would serve the community, extend life

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