Dear family, friends, sponsors and others,

Another update from the beautiful Uganda. Today was a day of many many impressions. In the morning we went to ADD International, an internationally established organization fighting at a political level for the rights of disabled people. The organization is situated in 11 third world countries around the world of which 3 in Asia and 8 in Africa. We interviewed the head of ADD Uganda who had a disability himself, the man was blind. He was so well integrated that i only found out about this after about half an hour of talking. He explained us many things among which the main goal of ADD: Not only to work for, but to work with people with disabilities.

After about 3 hours we went back to the ICU guesthouse to fix Laurens' wheelchair. Our driver Eddy, also a mechanic managed to craft one of the vital parts of his wheelchair which would have been impossible to come by in Uganda otherwise. Me, myself an I felt really happy about this since not finding it would have resulted in me carrying Laurens all over Uganda for the remaining of our trip.

When Laurens gave him his favorite (fake) Ajax shirt, he took us to a traditional Ugandan jam session where we spent the evening listening to all sorts of improvised performances. Alexander even played a bit on the drums; talking about breaking boundaries.

Having met a lot of new people we went back and had some more beers on the terrace. Since volunteering is not only about the work but also about the experience some people (2) decided to spent the night outside under a mosquito net. It was all really adventurous, especially when it started storming and thundering. Since Ugandan rain showers are not like what we were used to in the Netherlands they didn't sleep so well.

Anyhow, 'when the point comes to the pol,' 'on that bicycle,' sleep tight, good night