Out in the community today, a meeting with local leaders and then did some training on an app we have developed for our Community Based Rehabilitation workers, and suddenly it was lunchtime. Not a big fan of lunch, especially when it’s so hot, so always a bit nervous that I will offend by saying no. … Read More »
I was walking out of the Disability Centre yesterday and saw a little girl, maybe 3 years old. She caught a glimpse of me and instantly turned and walked away. I continued on, thinking nothing of it and emerged onto the walkway outside. The little girl was standing there; as she saw me again she… Read More »
It’s all about context. My hotel here in Yumbe is fine, absolutely fine. So I don’t eat here anymore because there is either no food, no service, or they never come back after you ask what they have. The power is variable, much like Haiti there is no mains power here, so generators and batteries… Read More »
We also support a school out here. Quite an inspiring story. Its only 10 years old but it gets better results than the other schools in the area. In Uganda you need papers to enrol in school. If you are a refugee, you wont have papers. See where I’m going? So, a group of village… Read More »
On the way back from a day in the field, we were held up by an articulated lorry blocking the road. Now I don’t mean a puncture or broken down in the middle of the road, but he had for some unknown reason begun a U-turn. He was now well and truly stuck with half… Read More »
So, I said previously Google knew where I was and that it was Uganda Independence Day., to put the Uganda flag on my homepage. Well, it seems Google wants to get even closer to me (literally).
Today we headed into South Sudan, it will probably take us 3 hours to get to the town of Kajo-Keji, just over the border. The purpose is to fit some artificial limbs. A previous visit 3 weeks earlier had taken measurements. En route we had some good banter, some of which was about the… Read More »
Sunday, October 9, was Independence Day here. And little bit of a milestone, 60 years since independence from, yes you guessed it, Britain. Asking around folk said there would be a parade in town. So Sunday late morning (after little sleep courtesy of the JM Kennedy gig) we set off to find it. Everything seemed… Read More »
There were really only two hotel options for my stay; one had a reputation for being ‘lively’ at the weekend, the other was ‘dry’… As Saturday approached we saw a stage being erected and a poster went up in the bar. Jm Kennedy (sic) was playing. I asked around and this chap was an… Read More »
Friday was quite a long day, but yet another I will never forget. I was on a zoom to HHA(UK) and we finished after 5, maybe half-past. It had been a long week, since leaving London the previous Saturday. My partner in crime here (“PT”) was long ready to leave, but as we were… Read More »