A thousand words

This image attests to the intense preparation that is required as we head off to our field work interviews. This is serious business folks.


The famous office building where it's all happening. Notice the non-existant fourth floor. It's certainly served as a landmark from which to orient ourselves around town.

Not sure which looks more ridiculous... Macartan's thinking cap or Pepine's cook cap?

Simon - this is the man responsible for getting us to work on time, rain or shine, amongst bodas or cows. He's a badass on Kampala's messed up roads, and when he's not shuttling us around and translating our interviews for us, he's making clay art in his workshop and running a sustainable employment-creating NGO.

Whatever pearls of insight this project holds and whatever fancy publications come out of it, it all started out right here, in little manilla envelopes on the floor of a house overlooking Lake Victoria.