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Sprinkler Irrigation System at Rwampara Farm Institute

 in Innovation Fund / Mbarara / Summer 2017  tagged Agriculture / East Africa / epafrica17 / Innovation Fund / Mbarara / sustainable / Uganda / volunteer by

Written by Yamini Cinamon Nair and Alex Raca.  In 2017, Yamini Cinamon Nair, Alex Raca and Alex Vassilev were the first Project Workers to invest in a sprinkler system. Rwampara Farm Institute in Uganda is the first farm institute EPAfrica has ever partnered with. This presented an exciting opportunity to apply the EPAfrica model in a new context and resulted in the innovative project of an industrial sprinkler irrigation system. Unlike most EPAfrica schools, students […]

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SHH.. Quiet in the Library!

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 By Carly Munnelly and Charlotte Mackey, 2017 Project Workers at Holy Family Marukusi  On our first day at Holy Family Marukusi my project partner and I noticed the school was lacking one very vital element: a library. The existing ‘library’ was in fact a small cramped room containing textbooks piled haphazardly on desks. Attempting to locate the book you were looking for was difficult enough, not to mention the gymnast-style manoeuvres necessary to circumvent mountains of books […]

Road, radio and research: thoughts from Kampala to Iganga

 in Kakamega / Summer 2017 / Summer Team  tagged epafrica / epafrica17 / grassroots development / Iganga / Kampala / summer team / Sustainable development / Uganda / volunteer by

In central Kampala, a huge flyover is under construction. My driver, Sam, promises its completion will ease the congestion, but for today the rush hour traffic is crawling and I’ve got plenty of time to think. It feels like lots is changing here. Passing through immigration in less than thirty minutes felt like lightning pace, with an East African visa as my golden ticket. It’s designed to encourage tourism in the region, lasts three months, […]

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A View from the Technical Institute…

 in Mbarara / Project Workers / Summer 2017  tagged epafrica17 / Kakindo / Sheema / Sheema district / Uganda by

Evan Reekie, Hui Min Ang and Donya Mojtahed-Zadeh are at St Benedict’s Technical Institute. They are the second set of project workers to work with the school.    St Benedict’s Technical Institute, a school offering mainly vocational courses, is based in the beautiful rural setting of Kakindo, Sheema district. This institute reflects the future of Ugandan secondary schools as the government are investing in this type of educational institution to equip students with the practical […]

Hillside Vocational Secondary School

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As we’ve reached the mid-point of the summer, we have been reflecting on our first half experiences in Hillside Vocation Secondary School, Uganda… Our school project began with a full week working in the Hillside Vocational school all together, after Norbert, the third member of our trio, had arrived. Following a massive, vibrant religious conference on Sunday 9 July, which took place at Kitagata Secondary School in collaboration with several local schools, we already felt […]

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Kisii Projects: Ten days in

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What a difference ten days makes! This week I visited three of our Kisii Project Pairs, just ten days after waving them off to their schools at the EPAfrica Kisii Head Teachers’ Conference. From their knowledge of their schools and their relationships with teachers and students, I’d have thought they had been there much longer! I started with a matatu ride out to Magena, a bustling market town where I met Sean and Miriam. They […]

Successful projects, studying and singing at Kakunga Girls’ Secondary School

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Today donations to EPAfrica go 100% futher! From 2pm on Wednesday 12th July new regular donations to EPAfrica will be doubled – and one off donations matched by up to 50%. Donate There is nothing quite like travelling in a Kenyan Matatu. After our 10 hour matatu ride from Nairobi airport to our central house in Kakamega, we knew what awaited us on the morning of Friday the 30th of June as we set off […]

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Graduate school visit: Nombe Secondary School

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Today donations to EPAfrica go 100% futher! From 2pm on Wednesday 12th July new regular donations to EPAfrica will be doubled – and one off donations matched by up to 50%. Donate As part of our first week training here in Uganda, we visited Nombe Secondary School, which received investment from EPAfrica in 2013 and 2014. We carried out what the charity calls a ‘courtesy call’, with the aim of checking how the projects carried […]

Humans of EPAFrica 2017 – May 2017

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Humans of EPAfrica April 2017 – Cambridge  This instalment of Humans of EPAfrica comes from Cambridge, with a group conversation with former PWs and committee members for EPAfrica, to understand their thoughts about the charity and its direction. The conversation has been split into three parts- · Their work before they went to Africa · Their time in Africa · What they learnt, and their current work with EPAfrica The group included both members of […]

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Humans of EPAfrica – March 2017

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HoEPAfrica March 2017: Maciej Mańka & Emily Fox As a second instalment of Humans of EPAfrica, we interviewed two prospective project workers who are venturing out this summer to Kenya and Uganda. Maciej Mańka is a first year UCL student studying neuroscience, and Emily Fox is a first year studying Development Studies & Geography at SOAS. Both of them had never heard of EPAfrica before they came to university, so we decided to see what […]