Ugandan Babes

Since I haven't posted anything in a while, I thought I'd change it up a little. Uganda has one of the highest fertility and highest population growth rates in the world. Walking along a rural Ugandan road, it is rare to find a woman without a baby on her back. Here are some glimpses of life in Uganda relating to the little tykes...





(From the top: A couple of siamese twins were born in a local hospital, but tragically they were not able to be separated and both died...one of the students with a staff member's child...The next photo is of Rose, the wife of the school's principal, Elly, and their three children and a friend...Finally, I even got a chance to carry my cook's youngest at one time, though he didn't like being on a white man's back...many children would run away crying at the sight of me...suppose that really opens me up to ridicule....)