In an effort to keep people up to date, and not lose my sanity by trying to blog about everything that has occurred since my last real update, I am going to summarize my experience in large time blocks. I will then try to fill in, and expand, on some of those experiences.
On October 16th I left training and went to live in Bukomba Village, in Kaderuna trading center, Budaka district in eastern Uganda. I was assigned to work with the Bulangira Disables Association (BDA). This turned out to not be a good fit, for reasons I may talk more about later. So during this time I did not have much "work" to do and spent a lot of time reading, walking around and just plain killing time.
After attending an In-Service-Training (IST) in the middle of January, I was able to convince my Assistant Program Country Director (APCD) to come visit my site to help evaluate the issues I was having with my organization. She visited me in the middle of February and came to the same conclussion I had...that staying with the BDA was not an appropriate use of my skills, training and time.
Within 2 weeks I had a new site and was on my way to western Uganda.
More to follow......
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