Country Info
- Kampala
- Capital
- Uganda Shilling (UGX)
- Currency
- 23,985,712
- Population
- UG
- Country Code
Uganda Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Uganda
Happy Birthday Mom
Today would be my mom's 55th birthday. I should be watching my mom getting older but she will forever be a young 52 years in my mind. The "should be's" are not something I want to dwell on too much. Yes, we “should be” ...
Sunday and Monday - Jewish and medical
Dear friends - At the end of another inspiring day - but let me first backtrack to yesterday's extravaganza. In the morning, the Abayudaya community held three weddings of coupel who have been together for years, yet wished to be married under the ...
The simple life - community life
... love just one hot shower, this all seems to pale into insignificance while living as part of this amazing community and being able to experience life in Uganda. And it certainly is insignificant when confronted with so many sick people on a daily basis. ...
The Schisto Was Bound to Happen
... from unless you are me on a work trip to a village). Yellow fever is such a problem here that you can't get into Uganda without proof of the Yellow Fever vaccination. I have been sick so often I feel as if I caught ever virus and bacteria ...
Violence/drama-first experience of death in Africa
... I left the internet cafe, I walked past a Sikh temple! Imagine that! A Sikh temple in a town of 15000 in the north of Uganda! I plan to visit soon... Did some shopping, went home, fell asleep - woke up at 1 and called my mom slightly late for her ...
The Source of the (Blue) Nile, Jinja
Jinja is on Lake Victoria at the source of the Nile. This is where I went after Kampala. However, I will first summarize my days in Kampala. First, I arrived. The taxi parks in Kampala (old and new) are the most hectic things I have seen (relating to ...
The road less travelled
... ; We are back on the road again now and have made a zigzag to the southwestern corner of Uganda. On the way we stopped in Kampala and from there headed up to a crater lake near Fort Portal. It is a beautiful area ...
Another Tale of Uganda Lifestyle
... than that if you blessedly have electricity and an electric water boiler thing. So, before I continue with the art of cooking (Uganda Style), just note the importance of clean, treated water. Don’t be that person who is always sick because he/she ...
Drowned Rat...
Well last night saw me and a few others drinking into the early hours of the morning doing silly thinkg like drinking shots upside down in a kayak attached to the ceiling of the bar...was not feeling too great when I woke up, but strong coffee and ...
I have now been working for 21 Days straight
Since coming to New Hope, I have been working everyday. Today, I woke up so tired and remained tired all day. Since there are 12 micro-finance group, I have at least one training everyday and sometimes two trainings. Therefore I work everyday. I think I ...
Weeks of Microfinance
... to achieve this.But the loans are out. Speaking of illiterate, I recently found out that though the official language of Uganda is English, government officials are not required to speak or understand english though they are required to have all their ...
Kampala!!!
This weekend a volunteer and I visited Kampala. It was great!!!!! We first went to a Korean restaurant for Karoke. Then someone broke into our car. Then we went to a club after reporting the car and dropping the tired people at home. By 4 am we were home ...
mazungu
... i am really excited to see melissa, sarah, aisha, and the rest of the gang! it will be absolutely crazy to see everybody in uganda. i am also excited for a shower when i get to kampala. i had no idea that i could get this gross ...
Independence Day!
... . The conference ended on a high! Everyone seemed to be motivated and enthusiastic about the future of education in Uganda. Yay! A room full of filters!!!! After the conference we took bodas to the IC house where we would ...
Getting there - Where??
... felt loved, felt i belonged, was well feed and secure in her home, and that i wanted that for their children in Uganda's Bell's House. I felt so complimented that they compaired me with Gran... It was so good to see the children again- many more, old ...
Bwindi and the Gorillas
... very devoted to the cause. In addition to doing dental work, they also get the chance to tour basically all of Uganda's sights. They were a very close group, and treated Emily and I like comrades because we are medical students. No ...
Installation successful!
Well, we fixed it. First, we built a new antenna pole. Think power lines. We're talking a 1.5 meter hole in the ground, six 2x4s, a 3x4, and the 6 meter pole we were previously using. It's about 10 meters tall, and that thing won't be going ...
The bananas have washed away!
Well, I never thought it could rain as much as it did last night! I was so exhausted from being on site and at a meeting with Parents of the children that i went to bed at 8.30pm and fell asleep straight away! However i was soon aware that the tap ...
Moving. How did it go?
Written by: Erica Moving is like one of those things that requires so much work that at the time I never want to go through it again. But when it is over and I am settled I tell myself that moving isn't that bad. I think the relief of ...
Birthday party
... headed to be pampered in a friend in Kampala's home That night I had a birthday party. Considering I only know a few people in Uganda, the fact that i had a party of 11 is a miracle. Of course because of african time most people came 4-5 hours late but ...
my job
so i have just realize that i never explained what i do to my readers on this blog . so for february, i was working at a school organizing a microfinance program. i worked with the coordinator of the program to organize the current documentation as well ...
Everytime it rains here there is hail
Rain here is so strange because it can be raining one place, but 30 ft away it is not raining. Plus it never rains normally here. It is either hailing with lightening and thunder or sunny. There is no in between. Today, i had the pleasure of being caught ...
Uganda Unveiled !
... This was always going to be one of the longest days in East Africa for us. We were heading to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Uganda is so green, it really caught us by surprise. There are hills everywhere, and the people seem to harvest crops on every ...
Give a man a fish
... their former glory. Since the glory days of being the first missionary flagship in the East, it has suffered somewhat. Uganda's turbulent history has caused many traders to desert shops and communities to be dispersed. The landscape is generally flat, ...
Bupoto Clinic
Today, I visited the Bupoto clinic and I really like it. It is remote but very beautiful there. The girl who was working there is also great. She has done very cool work and she has accomplished a lot in her time there. I now know what it is like to ride ...
Matatu Chaos and Island Serenity
... also managed to sleep through most of the journey!). Taking Matt's advice (and his sister Lauren's, who had also been to Uganda), we negotiated our way to the front seat (and by negotiated, I mean basically sulked and refused entry until they gave ...
Apologies to the Matoke
I feel slightly bad for the last entry: those of you with a 'world-conscience' will probably be aware that as a cheap and readily available food source that is also (I am told) fairly nutrition-rich, snubbing matoki is close to snubbing the poor who have ...
He guided me to Entebbe...
... got that long, but thought I'd just mention that I've been to Swazi and now sit happily in an Internet Cafe in Entebbe, Uganda. It's gonna be quite a busy schedule over the next couple of weeks. We're going over the the west where my Aunt Florence has ...
Trust
You know those kids in church or other public events who are a continuous distraction to everyone else around them? I know I've certainly seen a few of those kids and generally end up just watching them instead of what I’m supposed to be watching. ...