Our Region

Emergent Social Concerns:

The prevalence of disease in East Africa is overwhelming: malaria and HIV-AIDS top the charts, but less complex issues such as diarrhea and childbirth kill hundreds of thousands each year. (Malaria alone is killing 3,000 African children a day, one every 30 seconds).
Though Kenya and Uganda are some of the most ‘stable’ countries within Africa, political-tribal conflict (Kenya) and rogue armies terrorize isolated populations (Northern Uganda), bringing their own set of needs: a multitude of Internally Displaced Peoples (IDP) camps filled with infection, disease, hunger, pain and fear.
East African youth idolize the West and the educational paradigms they have offered, but have been ill-prepared to help cultivate solutions for their own society (the answer becomes “just get out”).
In want of foreign acceptance and aid, East Africa’s engagement in foreign trade empties their land of nutrient-rich food and local sustainability. Land plots are often divided to a multitude of heirs. Over time, the amount of land one individual possess is shrinking, thus there is a need to learn how to grow more food in less space.

Country of Initial Concentration: Uganda

Population: 33 million

Primary Languages Spoken: English, Swahili, Luganda, various Bantu and Nilotic languages

Capitol: Kampala

Major Religions: Christianity, Islam

Main Exports: Coffee, fish, tea, cotton, tobacco, corn, beans

Information gathered from:
CIA World Fact book:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ug.html

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