For everything there is a reason

As an international volunteer, my organization constantly issues reminders concerning health and safety. 

Chipati on the roadside

Volunteers are covered by the appropriate insurance and given the required vaccinations but what is being avoided is a situation where adequate medical facilities may not be available in the place of assignment.
For example, eating streetside food is discouraged  - so I have not tried this chipati that she is cooking. Staying indoors after dark is strongly suggested to avoid bites of malaria-carrying mosquitoes  - so I have not seen much of Gulu at night. 

Vols on motorbikes and helmets

Indoors, I always wear socks at night.  During the day, I also wear socks to avoid jiggers - a tiny mite whose larva lives on toenails.  

Use of boda-bodas (passenger-carrying motorbikes), the common means of transportation, is not encouraged - so I only to go places that are reachable by footing. 

If it does not turn right, blame the shades

Going to salons for a haircut or nail grooming is discouraged as one could get an injury and be infected. So what do vols do during off-hours and weekends?   

Plucking the adungo

Other than doing domestic chores,  going for church services or reading, some take a hobby, like playing the adungo, wait for a vol who can do a hair trim,

Next time, it will be my turn

Occasional cocktails

have cocktails before sundown at a nearby hotel or go to the forest to view the sewer dam,

Sewer dam

or the parade of Ankole cattle.

Parade of cattle

If this place had a Central Park or a Mall of Asia, then it would not need volunteers.  Perhaps, in the not too distant future..