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Click on a photo to see a bigger one By Philippe Lamoise Charging our computers, cameras, phones, has taken a strain on the current solar power system. We are draining the batteries too fast. So we worked with Patrick in the morning to be able to use a portable generator for some of our needs. The cable out of the generator had a male socket instead of female, so we had to re-wire everything to be able to hook it up to a power strip.
After the meeting, we made a few visits in the local community to learn more about their way of living and doing business. A local brick-maker showed us his business. He is part of a cooperative of 30 businessmen, 5 of which work on brick-making, the other 25 on farming. After deducting their business expenses, they invest some of the profit to buy some equipment they could not afford on their own, and they share the rest of the profit equally between themselves.
We also visited the plot of a local farmer who is doing companion cropping of corn and soy beans together. The soy beans are producing some nitrogen that helps the corn. But there has not been enough rain in the last couple of months, and he would not get anything from the corn he planted. Chuck suggested that he removes the corn on some of his plot so that he would get a higher yield out of the soy beans. In the US, they would dry the corn stalks for a few days, and feed it to the cattle. But it looks like they are not interested in doing this in Uganda, since the cattle is "spoiled" with real grass. Most of the cattle we saw were very skinny though.
One of the little girl around us during the farm visit had a big scar on her right arm. Maybe from a burn but I am not sure. She showed it to me when there was nobody around to help communicate and translate. I will see if Joanna can stop by later to look at it. (Note from December 30: Joanna did a search on the internet and found that this must be some fungus that she contracted after being scratched by an accacia tree. We drove her on Dec 30 to the Kamuli level 5 hospital to get treatment.) Later on, Chuck and I went to visit an orange farm where they are using plastic bottles to do some drip irrigation. |
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