Kategorie: 2018
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Lake Victoria
We end up on Rusinga Islands at Lake Victoria, which will accompany us from now on in more or less great distance. It is the second largest freshwater lake on earth – about as big as Bavaria. We are celebrating Martina’s birthday with two fresh Nile perches at Wayando Beach Eco Lodge and a sundowner…
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Strangers on a bike
I almost forgot the world premiere: The lady, who for years has refused to be a passenger on a cozy 1200cc BMW on well-maintained German roads, finds her joy on a 100cc „Boxer“ from China and the neck-breaking ride on bumpy African gravel tracks. Fast hätte ich die Weltpremiere vergessen: Die Dame, die sich seit…
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Ubuntu
Last stage in Kenya: Kasuna in the northwest . No paved roads, no water, no electricity. 100 Kenya Schilling (0,83 €) is the usual wage for a hard working day on the corn or rice fields. You have no money for a doctor’s visit, for clean water, for regular meals, for school fees or for a…
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An African School
„7 countries in 77 days“ … Here’s number 7 …. . sniff … First stage in Uganda: The Auguru Primary School, one of only 12 inclusion schools in Uganda. 600 kids in grades 1 to 7 plus one year of vocational training. Since it has been supported by our Rotarian friends from Augsburg for 20…
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White Nile / Weißer Nil
At Jinja we cross the source of the White Nile at the outflow from Lake Victoria. Source? Yes, there is the version that the White Nile springs from Lake Victoria. But which river is already 200 meters wide at the source? That’s why we prefer the version that the White Nile originates in Rwanda/Burundi and…
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Birds only
Because the White Nile is a bird paradise, today’s blog post is for the hobby ornithologists among our readers. … Und weil wir am Weißen Nil in einem Vogelparadies sind, gibt es heute mal einen Blogpost für die Hobby-Ornithologen unter unseren Leserinnen und Lesern. Eine kleine Auswahl der zu Pixeln gewordenen fotografischen Ambitionen von Ernst…
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Behind the scenes
We arrived safe and well in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. John, an Englishman living here for 41 years and now as a retiree active as advisor to the NGO Opportunity International (more on this coming soon) helped us to find a nice hotel. Days that are necessary to drive with our Landcruiser to the workshop…
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A school in Uganda
The Merck Family Foundation, through Opportunity International (and together with the British Ministry of Development), is supporting a project that gives 56,000 Ugandan children the best possible conditions to complete school. We are attending „Day Star Junior School“ that started in 2012 with 40 students and now teaches 668 children – and are bursting into…
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Kampala meets Black Forrest
Winston Churchill called Uganda the „pearl of Africa“ because of its natural resources. Idi Amin’s reign of terror in the 70s and the civil wars in the 80s took much of the glimmer. How would be the core of the pearl, Kampala? After leaving the White Nile, we fought our way through chaotic Tuk-tuk (three-wheel…
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Another school – another million smiles
Together with Anke, Diana and Efantus, we travel to a school outside Kampala that also benefits from the microcredits program supported by the Merck Family Foundation: Opportunity bank gives loans to schools to invest in quality and microloans to parents to finance school fees. Once again we are impressed by a dynamic headmistress, or rather,…