"You
are most welcome!"
Americans
for UNFPA East African Leadership Safari August 2005
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South to the Rwandan border
The African earth is red, red everywhere except around the volcanoes, where it's black and rich. And the banana trees are everywhere too, and the bicycles, and the labor of harvesting and walking to market with a loaded bicycle.
Leaving the savanna floor of the rift valley behind, we travelled for a day over muddy mountainside roads. On one side was a green wall of vegetation, and on the other nothing but empty space. We were glad when we were beside the lake again.
Next stop was the Ugandan town of Kabala and the border crossing into Rwanda.
On the way to Rawanda...
...we stopped for lunch and gave candy and pens to some small children.
At first, things were fine.
But there was competition, elbows and shoving, even to be photographed.
When the candy and pens were all gone this little boy was about to grab some from a smaller child. He had to be restrained.
I don't think I really understand how it feels to have so little that even a single candy is worth fighting for, or how it feels to see strangers who are so unimaginably wealthy that they can give away whole bags of candy, or how it feels to see them smile, and laugh, and wave at you, and leave.
Uganda: 7 of 8 pages
(c)
James Cowan
2005