Matt Berg Photography http://www.mattberg.org Photos from life and travels in Africa Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:14:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 morning prayer http://www.mattberg.org/2010/04/17/morning-prayer/ http://www.mattberg.org/2010/04/17/morning-prayer/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:44:02 +0000 Matt Berg http://www.mattberg.org/?p=43 Sauri, Kenya.

Senior girls lead morning prayer at Bar Sauri Primary school.

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Access to clean water represents a daily struggle to many of the world’s poor.  In western Uganda, women spend hours each day to fetch water descending steep hills from their homes to get water from a natural stream source.


The amount of water required for cooking and not the quantity of food available is often the determining factor to how much a family can eat.

Protected streams provide an important means of improving water quality by reducing contamination at the water collection point.

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My brother’s beautiful wife

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Community gatherings provide an important opportunity for community sensitization.  In this case, members of a local youth group organize a skit on behalf of Helen Keller International (HKI) to encourage mothers to bring their children to the upcoming nutrition screening drive.

Click here for more photos from Senegal.

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Wondering, probably for good reason, what I was doing there.

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My mom and nephew Noah.

Poli, Cameroon

My mother and I

]]> http://www.mattberg.org/2010/03/27/grandma/feed/ 0 kampala bike taxi http://www.mattberg.org/2010/03/20/bodaboda/ http://www.mattberg.org/2010/03/20/bodaboda/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:19:25 +0000 Matt Berg http://www.mattberg.org/?p=22 Boda bodas got their name from the bicycle taxis that operated at some of the busy border crossing points. Buses had to discharge their passengers at the exit border control, who then had to walk to the entry border control. The distance across no man’s land at some borders can be considerable. Hence the bicycle taxis would cry “boda boda” (“border to border”) to the weary travellers. These bicycle taxis can still be found in most smaller Ugandan towns, however, in Kampala they have been replaced by scooters.

Source: WikiTravel.org: Kampala

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