USDC field trip
on Jambo Uganda (Uganda), 04/Aug/2009 11:26, 34 days ago
A small series of pit stops 'up-country' for a work field trip. First a dash from Kampala to Soroti in the east,& then north to Lira& Arua, on the Congo border. The purpose of the trip was to visit some of the construction projects we are funding - mainly resource rooms and dormitories for blind& deaf children.The trip was also a chance to see rural Uganda up close. We drove through several bustling towns– little hubs of traffic& trade; clusters of thatched mud-hut homesteads& farmland. Amongst all of this, life really seems to take place on theroadside. We passed groups of women with theirjerry cans at the water pump, men on bicycles, laden with pineapples, sticks& chickens, about to topple over; children being bathed in plastic tubs or running naked through the bush, chasing old tyres& goats; people carrying all manner of things on their heads; women selling heavy bags of charcoal; palm, acacia,& papaya trees on a savannah landscape.& I even saw an elephant!