• Being on duty in a Ugandan school: ordering all latecomers to sweep the dirt and rubbish with their ‘stick brooms’ which creates a blanket of [...]

  First week of duty at school

  13/02/2013
• We visited a quarry in Gulu yesterday. Nothing should surprise me anymore but this place did. All labour is done completely by hand! The workers [...]

  The real meaning of manual labour

  10/02/2013
• Here is the long-awaited vehicle – very exciting! A huge thanks to everyone who helped make this car possible! A Toyota Hilux twincab. Dan [...]

  Here’s the beast!

  08/02/2013
• You don’t have to walk far in Gulu to find litter. Welcome to our disposable society where plastic glasses, beer/liquor sachets, plastic [...]

  Oasis of cleanliness amongst the litter

  27/01/2013

• Yesterday I went to meet my new head teacher at my new primary school – Grace at Layibi Techo Primary School. I learnt that I will be teaching [...]

  Calm before the storm

  22/01/2013
• Helping to undo some pipes to investigate why the borehole is not working…

  At the borehole (well)

  20/01/2013
• This solves the big enigma: what comes first?

  Egg menu

  18/01/2013
• My mind has been humming with lots of questions and thoughts that I am trying to process. Have met parents who have had to take their children [...]

  Education and money

  17/01/2013

• Dust, boda bodas (motorbike taxis), pot holes, no road rules (well – just honk), black outs, sales assistants willing to sell you anything, [...]

  One of our new high streets

  17/01/2013
• They say cats have nine lives, I would say the commuters along the road from Kampala to Gulu have many more! Pot-holes? More like chasms in the [...]

  In long-awaited Gulu

  14/01/2013