The patience of users of utilities, including electricity, water and
internet / international phone services has been sorely tested of late
for parts of Eastern Africa and Uganda in particular.
Electricity generation has been a problem in the entire region, but felt
most harshly back here in Uganda, where our governments inability to
pay contractually agreed dues to independent power producers led to the
shutdown of some plants, which operators simply ran out of cash and were
unable to put diesel or heavy fuel oil into the machines.
more on:
The Trials and Tribulations of Life in East Africa
JT Grade DVM, PhD
Uganda: +256-758 899777
USA: +1-415 858 4262
Belgium: +32-488 94449
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Ugandan Virus
Uganda has been known for Amin and AIDS, and more recently the LRA or Joseph Kony or the Invisible Children. "Joseph Kony recruited up to 66,000 child soldiers in the past two decades. His troops often come into villages and kill the adults then rape the girls and force the boys to fight in his army. He forced others to kill their own parents to sever ties with their families before being recruited into his Lord's Resistance Army."
Take a peek at this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc by some California guys that has gone viral, that is 67 million people have seen it since the 5th March....in Uganda we've heard about the video - but with our lousy network can't see it. Especially now that a large ship took out the majority of cell phone and internet coverage when it dropped it's anchor in a restricted area off the coast of Mombasa.
Meanwhile - Tom and Simon are heading off to N. Kenya to meet with other missionaries from around the globe working among nomads as Miriam and I travel back (finally) to Karamoja to link up with Carina and get back in the rhythm of 'being' in Karamoja. Loving the people, interacting and building stronger friendships, treating animals and training others to treat more, delving into language, culture and understanding, getting our hands dirty and our hearts in motion, making our work our worship and making our own little difference in whatever way we can..... it's been a long time - thanks for your prayers. Jean
Take a peek at this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc by some California guys that has gone viral, that is 67 million people have seen it since the 5th March....in Uganda we've heard about the video - but with our lousy network can't see it. Especially now that a large ship took out the majority of cell phone and internet coverage when it dropped it's anchor in a restricted area off the coast of Mombasa.
Meanwhile - Tom and Simon are heading off to N. Kenya to meet with other missionaries from around the globe working among nomads as Miriam and I travel back (finally) to Karamoja to link up with Carina and get back in the rhythm of 'being' in Karamoja. Loving the people, interacting and building stronger friendships, treating animals and training others to treat more, delving into language, culture and understanding, getting our hands dirty and our hearts in motion, making our work our worship and making our own little difference in whatever way we can..... it's been a long time - thanks for your prayers. Jean
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