All they want for Xmas is a Toilet of their own
Having access to a toilet is something that we in the West take for granted as Angela explained on WORLD TOILET DAY. The lack of access to sanitation including a toilet has implications for at least 2.6 Billion folk in the developing world Mark Tran explains in The Guardian, Sanitation related diseases such as diarrhoea [...]
Catching up Princess and Perfect
I sometimes can’t quite believe my luck! Once or twice a year I get to visit Princess and Perfect at their school in SW Uganda. At the recent visit June 2011, I got a hug from Princess, Perfect is a little shy. Temperatures are normally very low in this part of Uganda especially at this [...]
Let Them Help Themselves Out of Poverty
I took up Nikki’s 30 day blogging challenge . The task I am currently working on requires us to answer questions that people ask us the most about our work. I have mostly undertaken the tasks on my own blog ethnicsupplies.org but I decided to do this task twice both on this blog as well [...]
Gaddafi- will the headmaster be rolling up his tent soon?
Back in January I had a rare opportunity of being part of a delegation that got to meet Gaddafi in his compound. The reason – Gaddafi had called a Historic conference to discuss African immigration into Europe. One of the questions he sought to answer was whether we the Africans in the diaspora are afforded [...]
Uganda goes to polls#ugandavotes
Campaigning has ended and word on the street is that the roads in Kampala are eerily quiet as Ugandans get ready to go the polls tomorrow 18/2/11. Over on Africa on the blog we have followed the campaign with interest. Grace one of our contributors has picked out two points for discussion during the campaigns. [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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