Walk The World

On May 13th we joined the walk against hunger with the people from Reach Out.
The walk is a World Food Programme initiative to end child hunger. Every year people all over the world join the walk to create awareness and raise money.
A lot of Reach Out's clients get food from the WFP so there was no question we had to walk.
We had a great time and even though we were a little nervous about how long time it was gonna take to walk the 8 kilometres - you know, everything moves kind of slowly down here - we actually set a quick pace and were done in less than an hour and a half.
I even got to carry the banner most of the way.
Afterwards there were several speeches. My favourite speaker was a very dedicated ten year old girl who boldly yelled out her opinion. She did not think that her class mates or any other child in Uganda should have to suffer from hunger. She ended her speech with a 'Please Mister President, you have to do something...'
After that President Museweni took over and during his speech much of the audience fell asleep. It was the regular boring jabbering and in the end he donated 10 million Uganda shilling (about 6250 USD) and looked like he'd just saved the world. Then he took off in his luxury car escorted by all his security staff.
Once again the contrasts of this country were thrown right in my face.