Village life

Our home is on a small hill 3 km out of town. With a boda boda (just a moped) we get a lift for 1 euro to town (this means 3 people on the moped!). The hill we live has only dirt roads leading to the houses on this hill. Checked with the neighbour what our official address is. Only Kihembo Hill. No street name, no number. The neighbour :”This is a village, no street names”. Luckily we opened a Postal Box (PO box 772, Fort Portal, Uganda)!

Because off the little number of houses not much attention is given on the water supply. The families living in the mudbrick houses are used to having to carry their water. The rich houses have a water container of 500-1000 litre to make sure they always have water and enough water pressure. Sadly our house is not finished. No container, only 3 jerry cans of 25 litre. On our request a container of 125 litre with a small tab was installed in the kitchen. We have lived here now for almost one week and have had twice water from the tab. Each time between 01.00 and 06.00 so far, we never woke up ontime to fill our jerry cans. So we have filled them at the closest water vending point. The cost of this is 8 cent, but transport is the biggest issue. Also the jerry cans are off course not water tight.

Will we get used to this?