A very Happy New year to you all our supporters The year 2009 was a very busy one for us at our project in SW Uganda we saw an increase in overseas volunteers and this enabled us to forge ahead with the provision of a nursery school in the village. For reasons that we do [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Clean water for Ruhanga is part of much wider project to create income generating activities for this remote African village set on the main road to Rwanda and DR congo.
The Hilton Dinner Dance and Auction was a fantastic event. We raised £1,500 in total and this has gone a long way to completing the building of a craft centre/workshop. Many thanks to everyone who attended and supported us.
Here is Moses, one of the schoolchildren at Ruhanga, who will benefit from a clean water supply in his village.
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