It's only Wednesday but it's been a busy week already. The proposals that we have made to Restless Development for funding of a couple of events have been successful so over the last few days we have been buying the necessary resources to enable us to properly facilitate these events. Yesterday afternoon we held the first of these, a civic participation event for the Youth Council which was a resounding success. Chris, the Programme Officer at NGO Forum gave a speech to them about why their Local Government Act is and isn't working. Following on from that Tom and I gave a speech about British politics; how government is formed, what happened in the 2010 election and the processes we have to keep Parliament in check. Afterwards we held a question and answer session and gave out soda to the participants. One thing that is coming apparent is the notion of 'African time'. You need to always set the time of an event to start at least an hour before it actually does because people seem to inevitably always turn up an hour after the allotted start time. Any who here are some pictures from the last week or so.
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| This is how they buy and sell meat in Uganda. Pretty fresh. |
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| This is the market in Iganga. If we go and buy vegetables and fruit in the market then the prices get doubled because of the colour of the skin. |
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| This is a lady making Samosas. |
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| This is Sylvia, a national, holding a huge japfruit. They are a really sweet fruit. |
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| These are the little kids who live near our compound. They all posed for about 5 mind whilst I tried to sort out my camera. Deadly still. |
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| This is the tarpaulin in the back garden of our office. It will be a space where the youths who use our YRC can come and chill out and play games. |
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| This was lunch yesterday. Rice, cabbage and goats meat. Need I say more. |
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| This is a pamphlet we made for 'The Garage' which is our YRC that we handed out to the youth council. This is also the flyer for the Sports event on Friday that we are having. UDHA designed the flyer. |
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| Tom and I in the midst of our presentation on British politics to the youth. The one hard part is the language barrier so you have to be precise and clear in what you say. |
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| These are the youths at our Civic Participation event we held yesterday. |
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| These our Tom and I's presentation flip papers that we used to explain British politics. |
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| It was Valentines day last night so as a compound we all did a Secret Valentines present. Draw a name out of a hat and spend 2500 Ugandan shillings on a present. |
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| This was the love tree where we left the presents. Brett (left) clearly excited! |