ALL IN A DAYS WORK

I don't know what they use this for

Sugar Cane is on her head

Making used shoes look like new

Try swerving around this going 60 mph!

Cute Elder F. working hard bringing the Gospel to the land of Uganda

Rubbing that dirt in good

Car wash

Hauling

To Market To Market following mom

Children hauling water

I can let the pictures tell their own tale.  But this is what everyday life is like as we drive by in our car.
Sorry the pictures are a little blurry but it is the best I can do as we WHIZZZZ by and I am trying to click the camera
before we pass.  And not to mention the windshield is dirty.  That's my disclaimer.
But as you can see, being an African is a job.

He is on a bicycle.  The black at the bottom of the picture is the dash board of our car

The women carry little snacks in a basket on their heads to sell on the street.  Usually they are little packets of G-nuts which stands for "Ground" nuts, as in from out of the ground.  We know them as peanuts.  They roast them and sell them for a treat

This is a hand-woven mat.  People use the mats for beds, or chairs, or for rugs.

These aren't regular bananas.  They call them "Matokee" and they are cooked before eating.  This is a staple of the diet here

He is not really shining shoes for other people.  He has purchased a bag of used shoes from a humanitarian donated palate.  He now cleans and polishes the shoes and sells them on the road

Shopping day

These bags contain charcoal which is made from the hardwood that grows here

Bread delivery - either he is going to deliver it to various kiosks' or he is trying to sell it himself as he drives around town.  Everything is delivered by "boda" which is a little smaller than a motorcycle and a little bigger than a moped.

All the children pitch in on shopping/selling day

Soda pop delivery by bike.  These bikes have no gears, just brute power

People mover.  Cheaper than a taxi

Coke delivery

Each of these gerry cans full of water weigh about 45 pounds.  It is so heavy that they can't ride the bikes, they just push them along the street.  We see even little children with this kind of load

This is a wheel chair that is powered by hand bike pedals.  We see a huge amount of people who suffer from polio.  Many of the people who live in remote villages do not have access to vaccinations

Hey just waiting for the taxi on a hot day.  It is really rare for women to wear pants, so I thought for a minute it was a man, but she has a purse.  A modern woman

More Matokee delivery, and there is probably some meat wrapped up in the banana leaves

There are market areas along the highway where vendors offer fresh cooked food to people traveling in the taxi's.  Drive-through African version.  

More deliveries

You can buy clothing out in the sidewalk sale area.  Never mind that it rains on everything

Off to market

working

Keeping the matokee protected in the market

hauling water in gerry cans is an everyday chore for everyone

more people movers  -Notice the people on the side of the road going to market for more water or food

Share the load

Spend a day at Macy's

Elder B trying to keep up with the African workers.  Changing the smoke detectors at the Mission Home in Kampala

Hoping all those tires are packed in well

Share the load - these boys were in the middle of the street