I visited this women’s group above to check out their grinding mill, and then asked questions about their business practices, mainly how do they account, manage and protect their money. They used the opportunity to tell me about community problems, broken down bore holes, the need to protect the mill better from weather and theft (but that was their responsibility) and a desire for more training. In the photo above, as we were leaving, they broke out into song with the main chorus “Please don’t forget us Charley!” Without knowing it, I changed my phone’s camera to a more vintage black and white! CARE works with many partners, but it just so happens that the mill, the sewing group, the semi-permanent shelters, and the youth restaurant shown below are all supported by grants from the Czech Republic, which just ended.
Yes, this grinding mill could use some more protection and security. But its a money maker.
Another women’s group display their embroidered sheets and linens. This women’s group was founded by a man, who was a tailor in South Sudan and brought his sewing machine with him. he does the straight edges on his machine for the group.
There are thousands of temporary shelters made of white tarps and poles. Unfortunately they are susceptible to burning to the ground. Yet there are recently harvested straw bundles for thatched roofs everywhere as shown in the rear.
CARE is now building semi-permanent shelters as shown here. They are called semi-permanent and not permanent because they used mud instead of cement and unburnt bricks, but these should easily last 30 years.
And every semi-permanent shelter comes with its own pit latrine.
CARE recently put up community bulletin boards and as shown on the left, suggestion/complaint boxes throughout the settlements.
This is a new Youth Garden restaurant supported by CARE
Denmark has an annual telethon in February for children’s causes, and CARE Denmark sent a film crew for a couple of days. A young man is filmed drawing a picture of the home and people he left behind.
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Team building exercise with the CARE staff.
This is our team leader in Arua, Julias, who lives at the guest house. He’s a big guy.
In mid-December, at least 50 staff from CARE Arua took two mini-buses to Kampala for three days of trainings and R & R with the CARE Kampala staff. It was my first trip away from Arua since my arrival in August. I’ve become a site rat, but really, I dislike the 9 hour bus trip.
For Christmas Eve, PCV Kelsey got us invited to an event at Radio Pacis, People sing carols by a decorated tree, followed by the radio station’s 13th annual ice cream social. The manager has an Italian Gelato machine and set out 27 different flavors. One tiny scoop of each made a big dish.
Who wouldn’t want to gorge on gelato on Christmas Eve? It was in the 90’s through the holidays.
Kelsey on the left is in Kampala preparing to gong out as I type this. Her S.O. Harrison is an RPCV from Tanzania and Redskins fan. Angie, and Casey (also from Colorado) are teaching at a local medical college as one year Peace Corps Global Health Volunteers. Casey extended a second year.
Casey has access to a projector, and bought a bunch of wicker chairs. Then he turned an empty room into a home theater. Tonight its football, but every couple of Saturdays he’ll screen a movie and serve popcorn…unless the power goes out. No generator at Casey’s.
Then we went to PCV (Global Medical) Casey’s to wait for our appetites to return. At 9 p.m we had Casey’s home-made pizza and watched the Redskins crush the Broncos in a meaningless game for both teams.