Bike of good hope

We wake up at 5 am. We load the bicycles and have a great day of riding. It is beneficial to start early. Using the cool morning and also having some distance done early in the day. We go on the big tarmac road with smoking trucks. We take our time to visit Sina, a place for Ugandan children and people to go for free education, payed and founded by a german organization. The education is in stages. Some kids here come from the streets or orphanages and the first stage is unle

We stayed another day at the hostel Fat Cat in Kampala. Our new friend Luise from Germany have been working for one month as a midwife in Ishaka, western Uganda. She told us some really exciting stories about her job. She liked our idea of helping at the orphanage so she gladly did and really enjoyed it. So she also liked the idea of bicycling in Africa for a bit and without further notice we went to a shop for used bicycles and found a good japanese mountain bike for her in

Funding: 10 USD Isabelle Kardelind; 20 USD Paulina Wilson & Anders Bäckman; 51 USD Moa Åström; 51 USD Linda Hammar; 97 USD Till Smigay (Germany) This was a great day! We went back to the Real Life Children’s Initiative home. Fredrik and two friends from the backpackers hostel, Luise and John. This was great to get some help from other foreigners, engaging and helping out in this project, showing our treasure and discovery of the value of giving. It is so fun. We set of on our

Our dear friend Mital Shah has revisited the orphanage in Kisumu, Kenya to make sure that the shelves are in place. And for the most part it looks good, which will make it a lot easier for the children to keep their dorms tidy and keep the bedbugs away. This is one of two pieces of an old staircase that will serve as a bookshelf. The boys' storage room, where all shelves were broken. This top shelf is a missing link still, there may have been a carpenter from Stockholm doing

Malin's fantastic friends (to the pygmies in Kabale) 1020 USD, Daniel from Israel 50 USD, Marie Nordquist-Kastling 51 USD; Jamilla Nordquist 10 USD ”Real Life Children's Initiative” slum tour I ask the staff in our lovely hostel Fat Cat here in Kampala, for help finding an orphanage. They are very helpful and provide me with a flyer of a ”Slum tour”. I don’t think this is our thing. Costing 25 dollars to see people in the dirt, which we do most days in this trip. The receptio

Lesson learned; losing a phone is a very trivial thing. As mentioned earlier, my phone took a bath in the Nile, and wasn’t the same after that. So after some days of searching for a new phone, we found one. We also got around to fixing the bicycle back wheel that was broken. We enjoy staying at a backpackers hostel in the capital of Uganda, Kampala. It is nice to meet some other people for more than one day. Fredrik has tried to fix his phone but it was a terrible experienc

Thanks to: Lars Johansson, Camilla Johansson, Samy Ramdani Funding: It was a sweaty night with heat and mosquitos. Good thing that we were so tired or else there wouldn’t have been much sleep. (Pictures coming soon, i-phone is recovering from a swim in the Nile river, Uganda.) We had a tour around the house. In a 1000 sqm plot there is Ruth’s small house with three small bedrooms and small kitchen and livingroom. In this she has at times provided shelter for 15 kids. Also the

Thanks to: Marie Nordquist Kastling, Annie Svensson, Maria Lemon, Lena Wennerberg, Sophia Litzén, Anders Larsson, Kristina Rydbeck, Therese Löf, For the orphanage From Christa, Patrik Ljunqvist, Ulrika Bohlin, Carina Köhler, Viveka Sjölund, Gustav Thor, Nina Morics, Kristin Nilsson, Eva Björkegren, Zandra Matsson, Jessica Råstam, Jaklin Tunc, Eva Björkegren, Daniel Axelsson, Jenny Ågren, Ann Nystedt Funding: Round Table Kisumu and Keval with family 100 USD, Sofia Ocana Vän ti

Funding 21 USD Henrik Barck; 5 USD Anna Irding; 28 USD Daniel Axelsson; 20 USD Louise Flinck; 168 USD Julklapp till Afrika från bröderna Larsson, Unnaryd; 26 USD David Örtoft; 51 USD Evelina Axelsson (hjälp mammor) Yesterday we had a day of some internet and rest. Fredrik went to the childrens home for a couple of hours. Happily he was surprised by the children who just finnished cleaning there dorms. Then they played football together before saying goodbye. So we had a great

Thanks to: Funding John Thorsson, Evelyn Wallin, Lars Tobias Vestlund, Peder Berentsen, Britt-Marie Johansson, Ida Nordmark, Camilla Andersson, Lisa Hallberg, Carl Hallgren, Carina Jakobsson, Kajsa Pallin, Stina Andersson, Johannes Linder, Kerstin Wrisemo, Jan Trotter, Eva Svedbrant, Elena Magnell, Maria Eiserman, Karin Hjertén, Sabine Johansson, Rebecca Sten, Jens Tenland, Britta Djurberg-Sorby, Malin Samuelsson, Sofia Hedlund, Sara Ahlforn von Betzen, Andreas Jakobsson, Han