
We just recently finished one project. It was for the African Children's Choir.
A new school campus, as their old one was running out of capacity and in a rough neighborhood.
This is a photo taken from the school (it's a multistory building)
it's one of the houses near the school compound, but I thought it was fairly typical of a Ugandan hut in a poor neighborhood.
See if you can find the 10 Africans that are in the photo, although the resolution probably won't be brilliant. I thought it was cool once I started to count, how they blended in with the shadows so much. It can be nearly impossible to photograph them at night
The stains on the dirt from pouring out washing water or food preparation water are typical, and the clothes, the tubs, the water jerry cans. People sitting around with no work to do in the middle of the day.
They take great pride though in their homes however humble they are. I think its amazing to go inside a little house and step into their private space. The hospitality of Ugandan people leaves Australian hospitality for dead in most cases.
-RACKOKO-
I was browsing my photos of the north and saw my bed. I was quite happy with my improvisation. I turned a table upside down to hold the mozzie net at one end and tied it to the window's security bars at the other end. So this is where I slept for the few days at Rackoko IDP camp , had to use the table for brekky, but just set it back up at night.
It was very hot as there was zero ventilation in the room (the window was solid steel and had no mesh to keep mozzies out, so it couldn't be ventilation). Gets pretty hot with a tin roof and a hot northern sun (an hour or two from the Sudanese border.) So it was hard to get to sleep in the heat, but once i was asleep I had unreal sleeps. (I stayed up with all the locals watching the soccer and playing pool, so I didn't spend too much time in bed while up there anyway.)
I was sharing the room with a Ugandan guy called Godwin...
I've tried to post this a dozen times now, you have to be persistent.
1 comment:
Hey Roberty bob.
its so great to read of what you're up to and how God's encouraging you. especially great to hear about your church.
it's so fantastic you can have this amazing experience. i'm sure it will be very formative.
love from Australia
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