Culture Kit
Uganda #3
ID # 3823
Learn more about Uganda by reserving this kit full of cultural items. The kit includes items such as traditional clothing, beads, baskets, and an Ugandan national football jersey. Other items from daily life include lemongrass tea, bottle caps,malted sorghum flour, postcards, and musical instruments. With items for any grade, the kit also includes a stuffed giraffe animal, currency, the national flag, newspapers, and wooden masks. Reserve this kit now to learn more and read the descriptions for all the interesting Ugandan items.
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Mia Lei, Ben King & Maia
Mia Lei is currently a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is majoring in Health Policy and Management in the Gillings School of Global Public Health and plans to graduate in the spring of 2016. Her main interests include traveling, addressing social justice issues, event-planning, and trying new foods.
She travelled to Uganda during the summer of 2014 through GlobeMed at UNC. She pursued an internship with Raising the Village, a Canadian NGO that focused on sustainable poverty alleviation in rural Ugandan villages. On this internship, she mainly worked in Kisoro, a small town of 12,000 people in Southwestern Ugandan on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Because many citizens are unable to access a computer until university (which only 20% of the nation attends), she worked with the field staff to develop and train them in a basic computer literacy program. She also developed a practical way for the staff to gather information on the projects that they’re supporting, through a practice called monitoring and evaluation.
She learned a lot about the Ugandan culture and its values, but more importantly, she learned that “culture” is a social construct and there are a lot of actions, traditions, and beliefs that tie us all together as the human race. She says the most important part of her trip was meeting people and learning from them. With these artifacts she hopes to make a small representation of the Ugandan culture, but also show that we’re really not that different. Lastly, she finds it strange to talk about herself in the third person.
Ben King is a junior at UNC. As a former soldier, a current paramedic, and an active community member he always strives to serve his state and nation. He is currently an undergraduate studying history with the goal of getting into Physician’s Assistant school. In Africa, he conducted research on rural healthcare as well as assisting local doctors in his capacity as a paramedic. He was awarded a Bronze Star Service medal and the Army Commendation with Valor in 2010.
Maia is a third year doctoral student in the Geography department, and she was in Uganda for pre-dissertation research. While she was there, she did some preliminary interviewing with a number of Ugandan farming households from four different districts and had the opportunity to get to know a lot more about the wide varieties of cultures in Uganda.