There are now updates to the Uganda gallery and a new Tanzania gallery including a few pictures from Zanzibar. (The half uploaded pictures in the Uganda gallery have been fixed, and many new images added.) I mean to add a final gallery of odds and ends from the trip that gathers together some of the stranger moments I was able to record. Don’t hold your breath.
Archive for March, 2009
More from Uganda pictures, plus Tanzania
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Some more photos from Uganda posted
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
The Uganda gallery has a few more pictures uploaded upon arrival in Arusha, Tanzania, including images from Masaka, Gulu, Apac and Mbale. The child above watched the photography lesson Moses gave to a group of young mothers in one of the IDP camps in Gulu. He improvised his own camera and mimed the taking of photographs throughout the afternoon, which reminded me of a story Eduardo Galeano told at book reading of a boy who proudly showed him the watch he’d drawn on his wrist.
We’ve just returned from Endulan Hospital which serves the 77,000 Masai who live in the nature reserve surrounding the Ngorongoro crater. Endulan Hospital itself is a small outpost with about 50 staff with about 72 beds. Much more on that later…
Water in Africa
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
I took this photo of a woman we met in Apac who was on her way to fill her plastic jerry cans with water from a public pump from one of the town’s wells. One of the ongoing subjects Moses has been documenting during our trip is how water is used by people in East Africa. He’s gathering images for an organization called Clearwater Initiative which works on water issues here. Every town has at least one public well with a pump from which people collect water for drinking and often washing clothes as well. We didn’t have a way to test the quality of this water so we purified it with my Steripen or iodine before we drank it ourselves.
In addition to the public pumps, many buildings here include systems for catching and storing rainwater from their gutters on the roof. This water is usually only used for washing.