Posting 12: Uganda, Week 2

Don and I left Kotido and drove an hour on a bumpy, dirt road to Kaabong.  Don conducted another 2-day training session for the business community; I again worked with the staff on writing stories.We had our own hut on the NGO compound's grounds, but we shared an outhouse, a sink (filled with bugs) and a non-working shower (we resorted to using buckets) with everyone else.  The bugs were so bad one evening that we put our hoodies on to protect our hair.

While in Kaboong, we drove an additional hour north to the very end of the dirt road in Uganda to the border of South Sudan and met with the Ik tribe.  While living in the area for a long time, they had recently been re-discovered by anthropologists.  One evening, Don visited a kraal where approximately 3,000 cattle are kept together for security purposes.

See the pictures below of Kaabong, Uganda.

Members of the Ik Tribe

Ik women and their children

Ik hunters

Bobby chatting with members of the Ik tribe

The kraal

Kaabong town

Kaabong town

Selling shoes in Kaabong

Afternoon alcohol consumption

Kaabong town

Kaabong clothing store

Kaabong men