Welcome to the Insider's Guide to Uganda 
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Dear Reader, Welcome to another issue of The Eye – An Insider’s Guide to Uganda. Just when you thought our little magazine couldn’t possibly be Read More
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The Eye is a free bi-monthly magazine containing listings and directories, maps, reviews, tour and travel information plus articles of interest. It highlights everything to do with Uganda, from hospitals to hotels,shops to sporting events and from embassies to entertainment. It is distributed for readers and advertisers through national and regional airlines and tour operators, the airport information office, foreign diplomatic missions and NGOs, selected restaurants and bars, supermarkets and gift shops, all major hotels in Uganda, the Uganda Golf Club and government offices including the Uganda Wildlife Authority.
Articles in This Issue
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If you have never been to Sipi Falls at the foothills of Mount Elgon, get in you car and go there for the weekend. It’s just over a four hour drive from Kampala – well, depending on the traffic from Kampala to Jinja. And, due to the good road condition you can even take a saloon car, as long as you watch out for the potholes in Iganga town. What’s great is that you are actually up in the mountains and it gets chilly at night! There is a selection of places to stay to suit all budgets. More |
| Health Review: WHAT CAN A PSYCHOLOGIST DO FOR YOU | |
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Psychologists work with normal people and normal problems. Samuel Jackson once wrote: Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly. Psychologists subscribe to the same belief. Mental balance and well being are fundamental for good functioning. Our minds and bodies are built to tolerate a lot, but, from time to time, we all experience some form of imbalance or disequilibrium. This is completely normal and even necessary for personal growth. More |
| Charity Review: Caring Hands, By Hannu Happonen | |
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What you can do with old copies of The Eye Magazine (besides keeping them)
So what can one do with old The Eye magazines? I am sure that you have found some good uses for them. We discovered that they can be used to pay school fees, purchase food, pay for medical expenses, build houses, pay for house renals, and teach people how to read and write. In one case, we took old paper and used it to fulfill an orphan’s dream of becoming a pilot. Last year he successfully completed his flight training. More |
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Four years ago Frazer Small had an idea to introduce trout into the Sipi River so anglers could fly fish in Uganda. He was interested in the section of the river for which Dr Stephen Chebrot was the majority land owner. Dr Chebrot, an ex MP for the area, has been very accommodating and helped to get things moving, and is now a partner in the project. FIRRI tested the water and conditions (temperature and PH), were deemed very good for rainbow trout. Aquatic and terrestrial life is abundant and no indigenous fish species are present so environmental impact would be minimal too. More |
| Aromatherapy By Usha Panyi. | |
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Aromatherapy is a healing art and science involving the controlled use of specially selected aromatic essential oils to promote and maintain a healthy body mind and spirit. It is a complimentary therapy that has gained popularity in the last few decades. It is truly a “holistic” and “wholistic” therapy; that takes the person as a whole being and aims at treating not only the physical discomforts but also the emotions and the spirit for they have a great impact on the physical well being of a person. The essential oils are extracted from plants, trees, barks, leaves, flowers, seeds, fruit peels. More |
| Society Review: Alliance Française Kampala, By Sarah Bernabé | |
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Always wanted to learn French or would like it for business or traveling purposes, but never had the time?
Always complaining that there are not enough good quality cultural activities going on in Kampala?
Or are you just a Francophile? If so, read on!
This year marks the 125th Anniversary of the Alliance Française of Paris. There are 1,040 Alliance Françaises represented in 136 countries over 5 continents teaching over 460,000 students French and entertaining more than 6 million spectators with cultural events. More |
| Kampala Hash House Harriers and the Africa Hash 2009, By Martin Fowler | |
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Over the May Day holiday week-end, Uganda will be playing host to nearly 200 visitors from all over the world, who will be joined by a similar number of Kampala “Hashers”, to take part in the Africa Hash 2009 celebrations.
Hashers are an eclectic group of individuals who come together, usually on a weekly basis, to sweat-out their frustrations by walking, jogging and running along a “trail” in most capital cities on the planet. This is followed by the traditional communal “circle”, when “sinners” are ‘fined’ for transgressions and misdemeanours on the Trail, after which Hashers mingle deep into the night over a few (or rather several) cold beers. More |
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Ingredients to a great novel reach from love, relationships, finding one’s destiny and different cultures to power struggles, conflict, war and death. William Salmond’s novel Grandma covers all of these and some more aspects of life in just 91 pages. What makes this page-turner even more interesting is that he introduces essential parts of Uganda’s past and life today to the reader – such as Sam and Florence Baker’s journey, the Lord’s Resistance Army, Matoke, Boda Bodas, Uchumi, oil explorations, and that ‘you are so big and fat’ is a compliment – just to mention afew. More |
