Uganda Waragi

I haven't created this blog yet when I was in Uganda, so it's time to write about it.
Best time to write is right after the trip, so I'm gonna cut it short as it's been 3,5 months since I'm back in Nigeria.
First thing I can say is that Uganda, is a very nice country, it's beautiful, safe, quiet, wealthy (yes you didn't read wrong) because of all the help flowing in from European charities(as long as Ugandan government allows them to undirectly manage their politics), 1 of every 2 woman driving in Kampala is a caucasian charity person, they actually do very well there. What catched the most my attention was endless charities in every corner eventough ther are many other places in Africa where the most of help is needed, somehow all cahrities are based in Kampala including a huge base of UN(they say it's for their operations in Chad???). Even at the small pygme village we went trough passing the lake Bunyonyi for 1,5 hours and taking a 3 hour trek into the bush, there was a microfinance institute! Human being is just like that, whole of the rest of Africa live indeed under extremely difficult circumstances and need help and our folks (well not my folks, Europeans) settle in a place just because the climate is nice and the place is safe but it's still called rural Africa, incredible! As a community worker, after my trip to Uganda, I seriously started an investigation in my head and this is the conclusion: most of the NGOs do no shit in Africa. Me,I can say that because I see it in my every day life, I see where people really need help and don't get it, I see how in unpleasant part of Africa there's no charities, because life is not easy over here and somehow Uganda (they call it Switzerland of Africa and is true) is packed with so called ''NGO people'' it just makes me sick. Uganda is not what you picture in your mind it really isn't, Uganda is a heavenly place. They have some problems going on in the north but again I didn't know what was the fancy jeep with the very expensive GPS system owned by the charity ''war child'' doing in Kampala parked in a shopping mall, if they are needed in the north. So I basically suggest all of you that you pay good attention to whom you help and donate because we live with very limited resources left in this world.

As a place to go for a safari, I think Uganda is one of the nicest and cheapest where one can see most of the wild animals in their natural environment. In eastern Uganda in and some miles around Queen Elizabeth National Park, you can see lions, leopards(if you're lucky), Uganda Kob, Hippos, Elephants, Hyenas, 611 different species of migrant and local birds, Gorillas and many more... Rangers working at national parks are very well trained and is easy to make them happy with 5-10$ dash. I never went for safari in Kenya but I know it's much more expensive. By the way the word ''safari'' means ''journey'' in kiswahili language.

There actually are so many stories to tell (especially the story of the 5 years old birdscaring girl who has to walk a 6kms path 4 times everyday to go to work and back home for lunch and back to work and back home in the evening but that's actually the whole story) but these things happen in rural Anatolia too, so not many things I didn't know and plus we don't have microfinance institutes all over the country as in Uganda and Turkey is candidate to enter the EU! Maybe Uganda should apply too:-)