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Travel Tip 3 – Always bring an emergency supply of US Dollars
Sunday November 30th – Kampala/Entebbe/Kigali
Got to the airport early to find I was not booked on the Kigali flight
and the flight was full (as was the next one). The alternative to
flying was to get the 1:00am bus from Kampala which could take up to
16 hours to arrive. Fortunately however 30 minutes before the [...]
Eating and meeting
Saturday November 29th – Kampala
As we don’t yet have an office in Kampala (I wonder if Traidlinks or
Tullow would have a spare desk?), most of our meetings today were held
in Kampala’s many and varied restaurants where we consumed copious
amounts of food and drinks all in the name of development.
First up was breakfast with Busiku Herbert, [...]
The Mubende Experience
After a great first week in Kampala we departed for our next stop, Mubende, on Sunday 13th July. The direction was west and approx. two and three quarter hours later bumping and zig-zagging on a poorly partly surfaced road we arrived in the rural town of Mubende. The journey itself was an experience not least [...]
July 7th – 11th St Clare's Girls Secondary School, Mbale, Uganda
Early on Mon we set off for St Clare’s Girls Secondary School which is in Budaka, near Mbala, north-east of Kampala. It is a girls secondary school catering for 300 girls approx from Senior 1 to Senior 5, primarily boarders with about a dozen day students. There we stayed on the school [...]
Update – Team Uganda
Greetings from the Uganda team. With 3 weeks to go the excitement is building!
We will be heading to Kampala for the 1st of the 4 weeks teaching. Working with the Cabbaca foundation we will be training teachers in the Kampala area in basic computer literacy. During this week we will also have 4 teachers teaching [...]
And we think we have it bad!
Traveled down to Masaka, a town approximately 120km west of Kampala. The Kabaka Foundation is helping to establish a university in the town, Muteesa II University named after an historical Kabaka. Toured the University and then visited a number of secondary schools in the town. The first, St Henry’s is run by a Catholic order [...]
The Kabaka
Flew back from Addis to Kampala and was met by Sandy of the Kabaka Foundation. From there he drove me to meet Matiya Lubega, the head of the Foundation to discuss future co-operation with Camara.
The Kabaka Foundation was set up by the Kabaka to support community projects in the kingdom of Buganda. This is the [...]
Have you seen our Container?
Tuesday morning went looking for the lost Camara container. It had left Djibouti last Thursday and normally would have taken 3 days to reach Addis where it would clear customs. This was now six days later and no contact had been made. There were a number of possible scenarios: 1) The container had broken down [...]
New Friends, Old Friends
Landed at Entebbe Airport at 7:30am after a long but uneventful flight on BA. More importantly my bags also arrived on the same flight which was an unexpected bonus.
Managed to bum a lift with Steven (an Englishman who is building a large tourist lodge in Fort Portal) who was there to pick up his Dad, [...]
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