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Picture: The #tfbloggers at the source of the Nile on Sunday. From left to right: Odiira from PAG Uganda with Shane, Katie from Tearfund, me with awkward hands, Bex, Liz. This might not be my final Uganda post, but I don’t have any others specifically planned, hence the title. I have said this before, but…

I’m now back home, but I’ve still got a Uganda blog post or two to go. Today’s is about food. OK, so this is essentially just some pictures. Below: First of all: hand-washing. Before every meal that we had in the different villages we would be given a piece of soap and have water poured…

We’re travelling back today, and probably won’t have a lot of internet access, so here’s one I prepared earlier… — At times on this trip I have asked myself whether we have only been shown a sanitised version of reality. In other words, have we just seen carefully pre-planned set pieces from people who are…

Astute readers will note that there have not really been many cartoons or indeed any kind of drawings from Uganda this week. I could make excuses. Like the fact that there has been so much to see that I have preferred to spend my limited blogging time putting up pictures and posts rather than sitting…

I like this picture. Partly because it makes me smile, but also because it sums up the small business culture here in Uganda. UK football is huge here, and its associated sponsorships appear on TV continually. So why not get some free advertising for your phone top-up business? There are no benefits for poor people…

Time to put my degree in transport (you can see the certificate if you don’t believe me) to good use, and write about how people get around in Uganda. We experienced Kampala traffic on the first morning (pictured above) but most of the places we have been to have been rather more rural. The heirarchy…

We were back at the village of Ogongora today. Some of the time was spent talking to people at the church – the photo above gives an impression of the surroundings. We drank tea and had food there too – I will write more about that another day. Today I talked to three people who…

Today has been quite remarkable. We had our first visit to Ogongora, the village in Uganda that we have come to see. There is so much to say about it, and I’d hoped to do some drawings, but technical woes and feeling generally overwhelmed means that not-particularly-eloquent writing and photos will have to do again….

Today we have travelling by road for most of the day getting to Soroti, our base for the week. I am tired and so am just going to post a few photos if that’s OK. I intend to draw tomorrow. The journey was hot, bumpy, and quite scary a lot of the time, especially when…

I am going from one adventure to the next. For much of the last week we’ve been in Devon doing all manner of crafts and sport at the Ashbury Hotel near Okehampton. It was the second time we’ve been and I can thoroughly recommend it – see the Manor House / Ashbury website if you…

This is my new picture on my Twitter profile for the next few weeks. It is the ‘See for yourself’ Tearfund image that three of us have versions of for our trip to Uganda in just over a week’s time. You can see the complete cartoon via that link there. The tearfund.org/dave link takes to…

I have an exciting thing to write about today. In ten days time I am going to Uganda! (I think this warrants an exclamation mark.) The splendid cartoon above (not mine) helps to sum up what I’ll be doing, but in summary: I will be travelling with Tearfund, a Christian relief and development charity. Three…