Kampala.
The past couple of days have been action packed, thankfully with lots of headway being made here in Uganda. As some of you may know, Kampala has recently experienced a slew of riots due to an unbearable rise on taxes on gasoline. The Walk to Work campaign, championed by political figure Bisgeye, has incited a lot of disruptive fighting on the streets. Friday was particularly bad, as Bisgeye was violently attacked by police chiefs on Thursday.
As far as our work was concerned, after Friday's excitement, things cooled down quickly. By Friday evening some shops had opened again and we even set out looking for our generator. Today (Saturday) was an extremely productive, long, sweaty day, full of bargaining, starting at 7am and ending 15 hours later discussing prices in the dark! The good news: we got almost everything (and everything major) on our list. Incredibly good news!
Tomorrow, we'll visit all our vendors, pay for our wares, and make some last price comparisons. We hope to be en route to Juba in our 20 ton truck by Monday, God willing. Riots are expected to pick up again then, making it impossible to do anything. We are grateful to be safe and sound and on schedule. We are also very grateful for the help of Mayen, a UU alum who just arrived in Juba with the medications we purchased in Nairobi.
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