May 28, 2021 Girls doing laundry at the banks of R.Nile
To imagine those fun-loving, testosterone-packed young men that used to fling themselves into Bujagali falls to entertain tourists, now digging pit latrines for a living! Or hundreds of fishermen walking away from the only source of livelihood they have ever known. MIRIAM WATSEMBA visits Budondo village, home of Bujagali falls, to count the losses. And gains.
“The Nile is not of significant importance to people anymore,” says Hellen Awori, a 32-year-old, born and raised resident of Budondo village where Bujagali falls were once located.
According to Awori, after the construction of Bujagali dam started in 2007, River Nile stopped benefiting the residents in her locality.