An exhibition of photos by Irish journalist Niamh Griffin is now on display in the Northside Civic Centre in Coolock, Co. Dublin. Niamh travelled to Uganda in September 2012 to see, first-hand, the work being done by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) collaboration programme. The exhibition started on 11 March and will continue for one month.

Niamh visited Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, as well as Gulu, a city in the north of the country. Gulu has been hard hit by conflict; it is the major city in the region most affected by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony. In 2001 St Mary's Hospital Lacor in Gulu was the only institution which cared for victims of Ebola outbreak which led to the deaths of 13 nurses and doctors. Niamh also visited Mulago hospital in Kampala, made famous by the film The Last King of Scotland. Both of these hospitals are COSECSA accredited training hospitals and are supported by RCSI through this collaboration programme.

COSECSA is the regional surgical training college for ten countries across East, Central and Southern Africa, an area with a population approaching 300 million. The RCSI/COSECSA programme is funded by Irish Aid and is particularly active in training surgical trainers in various disciplines, provision of IT labs, examination support, capacity building and online surgical training and other training material within COSECSA.

Niamh Griffin's trip was supported by the Simon Cumbers Media fund. This fund honours the memory of Irish journalist and cameraman Simon Cumbers who was killed while filming a report for BBC Television News in Saudi Arabia. The aim of the Fund is to assist and promote more and better quality media coverage of development issues in the Irish media.