Uganda and the East African Federation

Maps of Uganda and Africa - the best maps of Uganda were produced by the Colonial Department of Surveys.
These maps are contour maps at 1:50,000 with contours at 50 feet, and can be seen at the Royal Geographic Society
in London and at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

This is a map of Africa with Uganda in green, Kenya in brown, and Tanzania in Yellow.
One day these countries may get together and form a union of 130,000,000 people.
Only 150 years ago much of this territory was marked as "unexplored" on the world atlas.

How many of you do chat on the Internet? It can be a terrible waste of time, or it can be a valuable cross-cultural experience. Or it can be both. I have had wonderful insights to life in Peru, Iran, and China through contacts I have sought out on line. In September of 2006 I sought out a contact in Uganda.

My original intent was to find an independent source of information on Uganda's HIV/AIDS prevention program, since the administration in Washington was holding it up as an example of right thinking. Before I get done I will tell you my conclusions on that subject.

Meanwhile, my contact clued me in to the need for improved water sources for the villages in Uganda,.Indeed it does not take much searching to discover that this is a high priority among international aid agencies.

Together we worked toward drilling a borehole in the village of her birth, and eventually fixed on
repairing an existing borehole that had fallen into disrepair since the colonials left in 1962.
That project was completed in July of 2007.

In September 2007 I booked a flight to see first-hand the results of the work, and to explore other possibilities.