RUHIJA
This little community is adjacent to Bwindi Impenetrable Park. Paulson took us on a guided, personal tour. The village was settled by Congolese refugees in the 1940s. Very nice, accommodating people. There is no electricity, no running water, no sewage system. It's not quite the Stone Age, but not all that removed from it, either. Take a look.
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Guide Paulson and Joe
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| Paulson's mother prepares sweet potatoes. Banana leaves keep in the steam |
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Grinding sorghum flour for porridge, the old fashioned way
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Village blacksmith
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His wife operates the bellows
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Softening the metal
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| A knife in the making |
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Another product line: hunting spears
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Everyone has goats. When they are old enough, they're dinner.
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The traditional healer (rear) uses plants to treat cuts, coughs, snake bites and the like. But when the traditional healer just won't do, villagers are rushed to the local clinic on this makeshift stretcher.
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Paulson said this mud hut is "under construction." We reckon it doesn't look too different from the finished ones.
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| War and HIV have produced a generation of orphans. |
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One of many schools that house and educate orphans: Ruhija Model Nursery and Primary School
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Director shows Joe around the campus. "We want them to become very important persons, yah..."
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Students perform revue welcoming the mzungus
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Curious? The page addressed why railway ties must be constructed to compensate for the expansion and contraction of metal under varying temperatures
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