Dry Stands

Thursday and Friday mornings are dry stand day at the Uganda Rural Fund. A team of 6 loads up garden tools, chicken wire and hammers and travels to a nearby village to make dry stands; a hygienic place to place washed cutlery and utensils as they dry. We dig 4 holes in the dry dirt, cut down trees and cut them to size to fit in the holes (sorry Uganda deforestation but at least the dry stands are easily repairable). Then hammer in chicken coop wiring and logs for the dishes to stand on. Each dry stand takes about 1 hour to make. The handsaw and machetes are so dull you could slide them along your skin without cutting yourself but human sweat makes up for the lacking sharpness of the tools. Jayhan and I sawed down an entire tree with the hand saw.

Yes that is me with a new hairstyle that took 5 hours for Mariah "Momma Tia", to complete.

Jayhan, Charles and Martin, in order of left to right with a dry stand.

Wednesdays we travel to child-headed households and build houses, kitchens and gardens. We are currently working on a kitchen, fashioned form banana leaves, mud and reeds for a kitchen for Olivia, Sasoon and Ronald.