Uganda Cranes football team in Kabale

Kabale stadium

On 8/7/2017 the 'Uganda Cranes' team and 'western Uganda' had a match. The match took place in the Kabale stadium. Many people were watching the football competition including the prime minister of Uganda Hon. RUHAKANA RUGUNDA who comes from Kabale district in Bugongi. King Siza Mulenga was also among the spectators and he gave one million five hundred thousand shillings to the players from 'western Uganda'. Many of the 'western Uganda' players from Kabale District played very well and pleased Hon. RUGUNDA and Hon. Baryayanga Andrew Aja who also made a gift.

During the first half of the match all teams had scored zero goal. In the second half the 'western Uganda' team scored one goal and 'Uganda Cranes' scored zero goal. The 'western Uganda' team won the match.

By Kiki

The African stretcher

The stretcher in the boat

In Kabale when the people are sick especially in the villages they lay the mattress and mat in the stretcher.
They put the sick person to sleep in the stretcher; it has four arms where to pass the poles to support the person who is in the stretcher. The stretcher needs four people to carry it. The people put the poles of the stretcher on their shoulders. When they reach at the lake they put the stretcher in the boat. Reaching at harutindo they remove the sick person and put him/ her in the car and be taken to the hospital.

By Kiki

Kiki travelling on lake

Kiki travelling on lake Bunyonyi

Kiki comes from Bunyonyi, one of the best places for tourism. She crosses the lake as she goes and leaves her home by boat.

She likes putting on life jackets to protect her while travelling on the lake. She cross the lake and pass through islands like Burumba Island. She says that it is better to travel on the lake while in the boat as it is big which makes it capable of stopping water from entering inside especially when the wind is blowing. She also said that it is risky to travel on the lake using canoes because when wind comes it makes the canoe falling down and people drawn and die from there.

By Kiki

Good Friday and Easter Sunday

Good Friday in Kabale (picture Joventah Niwandanda)

Good Friday

On Good Friday 14th April 2017, different religions, that is Catholics and Protestants, organized together and moved around the town. They were carrying their crosses and were singing the songs about the death of Jesus Christ. One Reverend father acted like Jesus and they were beating him using simple sticks but not beating him seriously just demonstrating how they mistreated Jesus Christ. The Reverend who was acting like Jesus was made to carry a big cross and a man helped him to show how Simon helped Jesus to carry the cross.

 

Good Friday

Easter Sunday

During Easter Sunday people in the village were celebrating and taking local beer. They used calabashes (orushare) to drink their local beer called Omuramba in local language. This local beer is made from sorghum and many people in the villages from Kabale district like it very much.

Good Friday

By Joventah, Patricia and Kiki

A new hobby: visiting kitchens

Agip Motel in Mbarara has both a modern and a traditional kitchen

Kiki and Pele visited a series of kitchens. They wanted to get an idea about how to build the kitchen of the project.

We visited the kitchens of Kirigime Guesthouse, New Skyline Hotel, Barista Café and Cepha's Inn in Kabale, Agip Motel in Mbarara and Faze2 in Entebbe. And what did we learn?

Basic things for a kitchen are a provision for electricity (heavy duty) and for water. Facilities to prepare food vary from charcoal to wood, gaz and electricity. A provision for smoke evacuation is always necessary (window or other opening, chimney,…). A tip: make sure you can pass the food easily from the kitchen to the dining.
 

This is the place where they prepare your food in Faze 3 Entebbe

A part from a fire and an oven, cooking pans, casseroles and a variety of utensils there are many other usefull instruments to prepare food as a fryer, meat roaster, toaster, croque monsieur machine, blender, kettle, coffee machine, scale, mincer, microwave…

A kitchen is not only about preparing food, you also have to make provisions for storing ingredients and materials, to conserve food (fridge, freezer) and to deal with left overs…

There are also different categories of small utensils you will find in every kitchen. Utensils to prepare (e.g. different types of knives), to hold (e.g. flasks), to serve (e.g. trays) or to consume (e.g. forks and spoons) food.

  Prudence showing Kiki the future 'open kitchen' of Cepha's Inn (Kabale).
You will see how the chef is preparing your food.

The biggest lesson comes at the end. A kitchen has to be build in a way that it is easy to preserve hygiene. We found that tiling is very common as well for walls as floors and also the use of metal equipment(s) is wide spread. A big kitchen sink is the favorite of Kiki!

All these are a necessary but not a sufficient condition for fine work!