Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of blogging recently. Data collection has finally started big time. I’ve done 2 and a half interviews so far, which will keep me occupied as I try to transcribe them. I have an interviews lined up for the next few weeks and I’m hoping to head to Pader Town and Kalongo IDP camp next week to interview some other contacts who are based out there. Not sure what to expect up there.
I’m really looking forward to getting away from Kampala and being able to put into context, where so many of these NGOs work. I’ve read so much about the war up there too, I’m looking forward to seeing it for real. I’m nervous about the recent announcement that the Ugandan Army is planning fresh offensives on the LRA with UN backing! I think these will be largely confined to the border regions of Sudan, DRC, and CAR.
After hearing stories from Charles, the security guard at Red Chili from Gulu, I’d like to see the places he was talking about, and I look forward to speaking to other people about their experiences.
Most of the other International Healthers in Uganda have pretty much finished their data collection and they’re all heading off to see the gorillas, head to Rwanda and make their way to Zanzibar over the next few weeks. I wish I could join them in Zanzibar, but I can’t really change my flight from Entebbe and to be honest, I don’t really feel travelling and roughing it on the road too much right now. Just not in that frame of mind… It’s gonna be lonelier at the Red Chili without them though!
In other news, I went rafting yesterday on some amazingly intense/insane rapids on the Nile yesterday! It was so much fun. The boat flipped several times, swam a few rapids, thought I was going to drown at some point. Ask me for the DVD when I’m back to watch me fall out the of the raft and flounder.
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