Aisulu

When people carry things on their heads they use cushions made with banana leaves. This lady is carrying 'matoke' which is like green bananas, (Daddy - plaintain?). It is really heavy. It looks like yellow mashed potatoe when it is cooked. When people eat matoke they also usually eat with it beans, rice, or 'posho' (white stuff like mashed up rice), chicken, g-nut sauce.

This lady is probably carrying the matoke to market or her house. I'm not sure why she is carrying this, rather than a man, when it is so heavy.

Can you see an animal in this picture?

This is the road that leads to our house from the hospital. It connects Mkono and Buhoma. I walk along this road every day. This boy is a friend of some friends of mine. He is about 11 years old and carrying a crate of soda bottles on his head, in bare feet on a stony road. I think it is quite young to be doing this.

In Buhoma there is a tailors shop, where we can get dresses made. Here she is measuring me, to make me a dress, whilst carrying a baby on her back. In fact the baby is a friends baby -often babys are looked after by a variety of people.

Rosie

In our village there is a little shop and there is a person called Ruthy. We sometimes buy clothes from her. I got an dress made by Ruthy. I really like it because of the patterns. They were like wind patterns that were all sparkly and it was all blue.

Daddy

This is the entrance to the hospital where people wash their hands in antiseptic. Hand washing is a very important part of health care.

Rosie

We have a hospital really near our house. There is a playground for little patients. We sometimes go there and play on the swings, and guess what, now I can swing on my own!

At our home we have many children, some are 4, one is five, some are 2. My friend Paloma was writing with chalk with me, just outside our house.