Mom came to visit me in!

Moms Trip to Uganda - Images by charlie shoemaker

So, I have the best mother in the world (clearly), she came all the way from Florida to Uganda for two and half weeks to see me. Here are some images from her trip here. Thanks again Mom for coming!

World Cup

Though I am not supporting Spain tonight, this guy sure is!

Rock quarry, Kampala

I spent my day today photographing with a group of women that were displaced to Kampala during the war. Now they work at a rock quarry breaking rocks for roughly a dollar a day. A quick portrait I made of one of the women and another from today.

World Cup with no electricity

With no electricity in Alebtong, a generator is used every night to power a tv to watch the World Cup. This was the Japan vs Denmark game, the first generator didn’t work, so a second one was brought in, which took about 45 minutes to fix. We got to see the last 14 minutes of the first half and then the rain came in and knocked out the signal.

Bouncing Cats trailer

I want to share this trailer about my great friend here in Uganda, Abramz, who started Breakdance Project Uganda (B.P.U.). This is a documentary that was filmed over the past 2 years about hip-hop, breakdancing, and what he and the group are doing to make positive change here in Uganda. Bouncing Cats.



http://vimeo.com/12234800

From the Field

The internet here in Uganda is slow. Really really slow. It's a lot harder and time consuming for me to keep this blog updated as frequently as I had hoped, so I started a blog that I can updated from my cell phone here in Uganda called From the Field. By no means is the end of this blog, and I will continue to update it as often as I can. But please check out From the Field as well!

outside Gulu.

New website

Hey guys this week I just finished my website (finally) and I'd love for everyone to check it out and let me know what they think!

There will be at some point a massive blog update, promise!

www.charlieshoemaker.com

Love you, mean it!

On the move in Uganda!

Over the past two weeks in Uganda, I've been on the move rather a lot. From 5+ hour bus rides, super sketchy boda-boda's, over crowded cars (5 seater with 12 people in it), or really really hot taxi's that run out of gas in the middle of no where! I'm currently back in Kampala after only leaving here less than two weeks ago which meant an hour ride to Lira on the back George's motor bike this morning at 7am, then a 5 hour bus ride from Lira to Kampala. Here are some pictures from being on the move, including your's truly this morning on the back of the bike!

Uganda week 1

This blog post took over 3 hours to upload! Anyways, here are a few images from my first week in the north outside of Lira. Still getting used to life out here but it's pretty amazing thus far without power, running water, and amazing people.

Come Let's Dance

The amazing people over at Come Lets Dance made my transition into Uganda as simple as possible. I really want to thank them again for putting us up for two nights and showing us around Kampala.
our only full day with CLD was the last full day of three of their volunteers. I tagged along with them as they made a final visiti to their children's home to say goodbye (for now). As tradition has it, the kids get to drench the leaving volunteers and it turned into a mass water fight. Good times were to follow.

Thanks again guys for helping us out, you're such a blessing and I look forward to my time with you early next week!

And I'm off...

In no order here are pictures from the last 2ish weeks I was in the states. Spent most of it in NYC where we got a crazy blizzard, got into a snowball fight in Central Park, met a new friend traveling to nyc for the first time in Central Park, watched the sunrise in Brooklyn from the roof....and then left for Uganda. I'll post more later but this took almost an hour to upload these pictures and i have to run. I'm currently in Lira in northern Uganda!