Everyday life in Uganda...

Thought you might like to see our kitchen and how we do laundry.

  All the soil here is red and our laundry water is not filtered and so we have to pre-treat all of our whites.  Here we are using a laundry soap bar to treat all of the collars and any spots. 

 

You can get a good idea of our kitchen...we have a small gas stove but the oven is electric.  We also have a microwave and you can see the water filtration system in the background.  It filters through 3 filters that we change as directed.  Notice the bars on the windows that were installed for our safety throughout the house.

 

This is our tiny washer which sits out on our back deck.  We do not have a dryer so we use a drying rack inside the house.  Behind the washer is our back-up power source in case the electricity goes out.  It works off of 6 large batteries. We also have a generator for the whole building if needed. Ray irons his own shirts as we have no dry cleaner available.

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We took a fun trip to the Equator on September 20th that also took us to the village where the native driver who helps the Humanitarian couple grew up.  He is the Chief of his village of about 2000. 

 

 

Ray is standing in the Northern hemisphere and Susan is standing in the Southern.

 

We visited the school in the village of our driver, Ssimbwa, who is in the center in the red shirt.

He wanted to leave several soccer balls for them to use.  There were very few students at the school as the teachers were on strike, demanding higher salaries.  These students are there because they live far away and actually board at the school.  Notice the schoolhouse in the background. 

 

We visited Ssimbwa's home and he asked Elder Stevens to plant an orange tree on his property.  He has had all the Humanitarian couples he has worked with do that on his land.

 

Here is a 150 foot well Ssimbwa has dug in his land.  He is going to put a pump on it to pump water to the hill behind his home, so he can supply fresh water for his village.  Currently they are using "raw" water from streams where animals also drink.

 

Here is a photo of his mother who is 76.  She has a home on the property as well.  She is cutting up potatoes for their meal.

 

 

This is an ant/ termite hill.  We see them all over Africa and some of them are huge.  This one is about 6 feet high.