Archive for February, 2010
Village Life
Village Houses Most of the people living around Uganda Lodge are subsistence farmers. They have a very basic home, usually consisting of two or three rooms and built with locally made mud bricks and a roof of either thatched banana leaves and grass or rusting iron sheets. If the inside rooms have been plastered at [...]
Local Farming in Ntungamo
The Land While there are a few ‘important’ people in these villages who may own quite large stretches of land, and have a herd of cows as well as matoke plantations (green bananas) , the majority struggle from day to day to make ends meet. They are likely to have an acre or so of [...]
Uganda Lodge
http://www.ugandalodge.com/volunteering.html Location Set amongst rolling hills in the south-west of Uganda our hotel/guest house is easily reached from Kampala in a few hours. Although in a rural village setting it is on the main Kabale Road, and buses coming from Kampala will drop you off at the gates. There is a small town (Ntungamo) about [...]
