Ugandan day-to-day Style

Hi there muzungus of the world again!

Working Experiences:
It has been almost a month that we started our adventure through UPA Branches in several locations of Uganda. This three week have been quite well invested in writing a report about our visits in order for us to organize the picture we got from UPA and for UPA to get to know the group of EU Aid Volunteers that has come to Uganda to work for them these 6 months.
The written report has been only the beginning of a wider Guideline that we would like to hand in as a result of our stay in Uganda. This Guideline is intended to content best practices, tips and templates for Networking, Lobby and Advocacy as well as for Documentation, Monitoring and Evaluation. Our visit to the branches helped us to understand that it must be a very practical and easy guide for UPA to understand and follow. So for now we are expecting feedback of this reports and getting started with the core of our work here: The Guideline.

Life Experiences:
Speaking of something else, and as mentioned before some of us are attending to Baganda Dance Lessons. We are supposed to act in the National Theater of Kampala in a couple of months, at night, during Monday’s Jam Sessions. But the attendance to the course varies a lot… and the proportion of men/women changes as well so we do not practices enough and properly. Though Wednesdays and Sundays are become a great chance to meet our Ugandan friends there and, after dancing, play pool and drink a couple of beers together.
To be honest some of us a becoming really good pool players 😉
For those that do not dare to dance UPA also organizes Drama/Theater and Hand Craft courses on Wednesdays. The first one is carried out by a German volunteer and the second one by a Ugandan guy, but due to lack of funds the second one has not started this year yet.
This year, as a novelty, Guitar lessons are also carried out in UPA. Anna is in charge to sharing her knowledge with other Ugandan and muzungu volunteers interested in learning. It surprises me how many Ugandans are stimulated to learn Spanish guitar.

Our weekends are well profited with visits to Kampala, countryside, other cities around and touristic activities with visitors or our selves. One of us has even dared to drive 350 km with a rented motorbike to Gulu – Gulu is a town of 150,000 inhabitants, capital of Northern Uganda and the epicenter of the LRA war against the administration of Kampala. It has some 40 NGOs, and United Nations offices and agencies of many programs that remember this war, but now no longer have much more to do there. A very interesting city!

So, muzungus of the world. Thank you for your interest in our Ugandan Life Style!
Thank you for sharing also your experiences!
Our day-to-day life is broadly explained in this post.
Let’s hope we can share some of our Ugandan Gastronomic knowledge with you next time!

 

* Wikipedia: The Baganda (singular Muganda) are an ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda. Traditionally comprising 52 tribes (although since a 1993 survey, only 46 are currently officially recognised), the Baganda are currently the largest ethnic group in Uganda.

Hi there muzungus of the world again!

Working Experiences:

It has been almost a month that we started our adventure through UPA Branches in several locations of Uganda. This three week have been quite well invested in writing a report about our visits in order for us to organize the picture we got from UPA and for UPA to get to know the group of EU Aid Volunteers that has come to Uganda to work for them these 6 months.

The written report has been only the beginning of a wider Guideline that we would like to hand in as a result of our stay in Uganda. This Guideline is intended to content best practices, tips and templates for Networking, Lobby and Advocacy as well as for Documentation, Monitoring and Evaluation. Our visit to the branches helped us to understand that it must be a very practical and easy guide for UPA to understand and follow. So for now we are expecting feedback of this reports and getting started with the core of our work here: The Guideline.

Life Experiences:

Speaking of something else, and as mentioned before some of us are attending to Baganda Dance Lessons. We are supposed to act in the National Theater of Kampala in a couple of months, at night, during Monday’s Jam Sessions. But the attendance to the course varies a lot… and the proportion of men/women changes as well so we do not practices enough and properly. Though Wednesdays and Sundays are become a great chance to meet our Ugandan friends there and, after dancing, play pool and drink a couple of beers together.

To be honest some of us a becoming really good pool players 😉

For those that do not dare to dance UPA also organizes Drama/Theater and Hand Craft courses on Wednesdays. The first one is carried out by a German volunteer and the second one by a Ugandan guy, but due to lack of funds the second one has not started this year yet.

This year, as a novelty, Guitar lessons are also carried out in UPA. Anna is in charge to sharing her knowledge with other Ugandan and muzungu volunteers interested in learning. It surprises me how many Ugandans are stimulated to learn Spanish guitar.

Our weekends are well profited with visits to Kampala, countryside, other cities around and touristic activities with visitors or our selves. One of us has even dared to drive 350 km with a rented motorbike to Gulu – Gulu is a town of 150,000 inhabitants, capital of Northern Uganda and the epicenter of the LRA war against the administration of Kampala. It has some 40 NGOs, and United Nations offices and agencies of many programs that remember this war, but now no longer have much more to do there. A very interesting city!

So, muzungus of the world. Thank you for your interest in our Ugandan Life Style!

Thank you for sharing also your experiences!

Our day-to-day life is broadly explained in this post.

Let’s hope we can share some of our Ugandan Gastronomic knowledge with you next time!

* Wikipedia: The Baganda (singular Muganda) are an ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda. Traditionally comprising 52 tribes (although since a 1993 survey, only 46 are currently officially recognised), the Baganda are currently the largest ethnic group in Uganda.