And you thought British weather was bad!

To say it has been raining recently would be an understatement.

This is the view from the back of our office and as you can see, the rainy season in Uganda gives people a more than adequate reason to complain about the weather. For a start, how do you access the loo (centre of picture) which is surrounded by water?

This may be a briefly amusing thought until you realise that floods like these actually bring serious health implications in the slum areas where we work. Cholera outbreaks are common and some families' homes are literally washed away. People who are already in desperate poverty lose the little they have.

The issue which affects everyone is the state of the roads. In fact, we have noticed that much as the British like to talk about the weather, presumably because it is always changing - or we are incredibly boring and dull- the equivalent topic in Uganda is the state of the roads, seemingly for much the same (former) reason.

The roads here have literally been washed away with the rains. Some roads, including the one to our Bambejja Project, are now impassable and other paved roads are full of potholes, some so deep you could probably catch a fish or two.

One thing we love about Uganda is the entrepreneurship - people using any opportunity to make a living. The best example of this we have come across is a man who has recently bought a boat to ferry people across the floods on one of the worst roads in Kampala, where we have literally seen cyclists disappear under water when they hit a pothole within a flood. We are sure he is now a very happy and wealthy man!