On Fridays the Eco-Farm delivers some food to the orphanage/school in Kayera. As this is close to Masindi, the next bigger town, where I wanted to buy a SIM-card of a local phone company and a modem to be able to check e-mails from time to time I joined Dennis. With Claudia we drove to the store again and filled some sacks with the goods to deliver. Claudia then went back home while Dennis and I waited for the taxi that he had ordered to come and bring us to the orphanage and to Masindi after. When the taxi driver arrived, hi brought like 4 colleagues with him. They came, said hello and told me their names about 5-6 times. A ritual that I had experienced many times since I entered Africa.
Some of the guys then loaded the food into the taxi their leader only put my backpack into the car. They then got some money and the lesser of them had to stay there while their leader joined us when we drove off. On the way we stopped to buy some pineapples from Dennis. Later we stopped again to buy a sack of charcoal, I don’t know if that was for Dennis or for the farm…
The roads to Kayera are terribly bad, with lots of potholes, some very big and also pretty deep. So the driver had to slow down very often and circle around those potholes. There’s lots of accidents on those streets. We had seen two trucks that had XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX kipped to the side along the relatively short way. At some point we had to stop because of road work. As always lots of locals ran to the cars trying to sell water, meat on sticks, casava, bananas and omelets. Dennis and the driver did so. As Dennis said it’s here, the driver turned to the right and entered some street that I had not even seen before. We followed that way for a while and then arrived at school where I had been introduced to Jeanne who works for the foundation as well as Dennis. Then Dennis showed me around the ground. From some rooms you could hear children repeating words from the teachers. The houses were build pretty poorly, just with wood, mud and cow dung. The dormatories looked pretty cramped but at least every child has their own bed. The new outdoor bathrooms looked good but there was a problem with the drain.
Later I was introduced to the director of the school. He wasn’t speaking a lot but gave me a guest book where I had to enter name, address, phone number, reason of visit and my signature… I was already expecting him to ask for a small fee but this time I didn’t have to pay anything. As the taxi driver was wating we then left to go to Masindi where Dennis checked a place called New Courtview Hotel where I would stay for the night for a price of 65’000 Shilling (~23 CHF). After they showed me my room, Dennis left and promised to get back at 3 p.m. to go shopping. At about half past 3 he arrived and then we bought a SIM-card from a local provider and then we went to some supermarkets to buy some food and other stuff. In between it started to rain heavily! So we stopped at some bar. At about 6 we went back to my lodge where Dennis left. I went for supper at the lodge and then went back to my room to write the latest blog… Tomorrow I’ll check for a solar fridge and some foot- and netballs for the kids and will visit another orphanage before I’ll most probably go back to the Eco-Farm.
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