Village Life

Village Houses

Most of the people living around Uganda Lodge are subsistence farmers. They have a very basic home, usually consisting of two or three rooms and built with locally made mud bricks and a roof of either thatched banana leaves and grass or rusting iron sheets.

If the inside rooms have been plastered [...]

Local Farming in Ntungamo

The Land

While there are a few ‘important’ people in these villages who may own quite large stretches of land, and have a herd of cows as well as matoke plantations (green bananas) , the majority struggle from day to day to make ends meet.

They are likely to have an acre or so of [...]

Ugandan School Child

Here is Moses, one of the schoolchildren at Ruhanga, who will benefit from a clean water supply in his village.