Tobias and me (holding the CSE sign) together with some of the 40-50 interviewed potential entreprenuers in Bubulo. Some of the already installed solarpanels can be seen above us.
We’ve now spent a 7 days in Bubulo, and we have at least 4 days left.
It has been a very demanding and a big struggle to meet all these peasants and farmers that think that me and Tobias are there to help ALL of them in 50 different projects. Everything from building private schools, to install radiostations, to help the farmers with their poultry and cattle farming.
Rex, who’s the coordinator of the Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship (CSE) project in Bubulo, the Solarpanelinstallation, hasn’t really communicated to his community that we’re only the researches that are there to find potential entrepreneurs for potential development projects…we’ve probably encountered 100 people that wishes to invite us to their homes and see how they live and what we can help them with, especially getting their poverty level from a subzero level to a some kind of “live-able” level. We talk to each and everyone of them and listen to what they all have to say, but it’s a big struggle to keep your words back when there’s hidden agendas around the corner.
Me and Tobias were furious when Rex took us to the side and asked “So guys, when are you going to take on my personal project, the Radiostation-installation!? You can work with my oldest son, he can be responsible for the project!” Me and Tobias didn’t really process what he said, so we just sat down and continued interviewing the potential entrepreneurs in the Red Cross building.
The second day in Bubulo, the fury rose to a climax, when an old lady, Joy, introduced us to the Bubulo Medical Center…which was more or less in a disaster shape! Rex was thinking about his own personal interest, the radiostation, when the common people is dying in their homes because the Medical center is more or less out of function.
We’ve now spent a 7 days in Bubulo, and we have at least 4 days left.
It has been a very demanding and a big struggle to meet all these peasants and farmers that think that me and Tobias are there to help ALL of them in 50 different projects. Everything from building private schools, to install radiostations, to help the farmers with their poultry and cattle farming.
Rex, who’s the coordinator of the Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship (CSE) project in Bubulo, the Solarpanelinstallation, hasn’t really communicated to his community that we’re only the researches that are there to find potential entrepreneurs for potential development projects…we’ve probably encountered 100 people that wishes to invite us to their homes and see how they live and what we can help them with, especially getting their poverty level from a subzero level to a some kind of “live-able” level. We talk to each and everyone of them and listen to what they all have to say, but it’s a big struggle to keep your words back when there’s hidden agendas around the corner.
Me and Tobias were furious when Rex took us to the side and asked “So guys, when are you going to take on my personal project, the Radiostation-installation!? You can work with my oldest son, he can be responsible for the project!” Me and Tobias didn’t really process what he said, so we just sat down and continued interviewing the potential entrepreneurs in the Red Cross building.
The second day in Bubulo, the fury rose to a climax, when an old lady, Joy, introduced us to the Bubulo Medical Center…which was more or less in a disaster shape! Rex was thinking about his own personal interest, the radiostation, when the common people is dying in their homes because the Medical center is more or less out of function.
Us togehter with the coordinators in Bubulo and the foundation stone of the Solarcell-project, they've got Växjö University caps on..good PR in case some Bubulo villagers wanna do an exchange and attend Osvaldo Salas classes!
300.000 people in the community and not a single functional Medical center. The Microscopes were out of order, the fridge as well, the sanitation level is something I don’t wanna mention. The strange thing is that there’s already solarcells installed on top of the Medical Center, but the fuses and batteries seams to be out of function, for the last 5 years! According to Peter, another coordinator.
There’s a guy in the village who’s a certified Solarcell engineer, but because the Community of Bubulo cannot afford to pay him, this Engineer found work in Kabale and Kisoro, close to the Rwandan border. But don’t worry; we caught him, interviewed him and his going to be interviewed a second time next week, with the other 7 potential entrepreneurs, out of the 50.
With the knowledge we have that the Top guy, Rex, is having is own hidden agenda makes us disgusted and angry, when you see that newborn babies are lying in the medical center with inadequate medical treatment/facilities.
It feels that we’ve helped the Chalmers /CSE people with a big burden, to explain for the whole district what is going to take place in August, and believe me when hundreds of people beg you to help them, you become mentally drained, even though you’re mentally well prepared. The CSE people will be fully warned of the extent of the EXPECTATION level that is in the region.
There’s a guy in the village who’s a certified Solarcell engineer, but because the Community of Bubulo cannot afford to pay him, this Engineer found work in Kabale and Kisoro, close to the Rwandan border. But don’t worry; we caught him, interviewed him and his going to be interviewed a second time next week, with the other 7 potential entrepreneurs, out of the 50.
With the knowledge we have that the Top guy, Rex, is having is own hidden agenda makes us disgusted and angry, when you see that newborn babies are lying in the medical center with inadequate medical treatment/facilities.
It feels that we’ve helped the Chalmers /CSE people with a big burden, to explain for the whole district what is going to take place in August, and believe me when hundreds of people beg you to help them, you become mentally drained, even though you’re mentally well prepared. The CSE people will be fully warned of the extent of the EXPECTATION level that is in the region.
A newborn baby in the Medical Center....Me and Tobias haven’t smiled or laughed in the last week, because allot of people have hidden agendas of how they personally can benefit from a Development Aid/Technology Project, such as the CSE project. There’s a lack of priorities, Radiostation VS a functional Medical Center????? No Medical center --> No Health --> No life --> No Development…End of story! When we questioned Joy, the Medical center responsible, which the most common source of death in the district was, the answer came without any hesitation “HIV/AIDS and Malaria, and people are afraid to come to the Medical center when it is as dissfunctional as it is now!”
The women are the ones that makes things happen around here. The majority of the men sit around and wait for things to happen. There’s a mindest of “Live for the day, and as long as I’m not hungry today, I’m content with my life” That is one of the reasons why the women get the microfinance loans and not the men, in this part of Uganda, but the man is the one who’s the Head of the family, so the woman won’t have a say anyways.
If you take in to consideration the combine experiences that me and Tobias having lived around the entire Globe and have a high tolerance-level, immune to culture clashes by know, it takes a while before anyone can makes is angry in any culture or country around the world…that has happened here!
At the moment we only want get this project finished and go back to our main Headquarter, Red Chilli Hostel Hideaway in Bugulobi, Kampala. We will do our best, as always, but we’re definitely not smiling anymore.
The women are the ones that makes things happen around here. The majority of the men sit around and wait for things to happen. There’s a mindest of “Live for the day, and as long as I’m not hungry today, I’m content with my life” That is one of the reasons why the women get the microfinance loans and not the men, in this part of Uganda, but the man is the one who’s the Head of the family, so the woman won’t have a say anyways.
If you take in to consideration the combine experiences that me and Tobias having lived around the entire Globe and have a high tolerance-level, immune to culture clashes by know, it takes a while before anyone can makes is angry in any culture or country around the world…that has happened here!
At the moment we only want get this project finished and go back to our main Headquarter, Red Chilli Hostel Hideaway in Bugulobi, Kampala. We will do our best, as always, but we’re definitely not smiling anymore.
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