After a virtually non-stop 36 hours of code jam, night flight to Entebbe, and frantic equipment set up as soon as we arrived at the hotel, we finally declared ourselves “ready” at about 1.30am on Sunday night. After a bit of much needed sleep, we headed into the UNICEF head office in Kampala Monday morning, for a meet-and-greet and give a quick overview of RapidFTR to the child protection team there. So far so good! Well, except of course that Jorge’s bags still hadn’t turned up at the airport, so he had to head out to at least get a second pair of clothes before we headed up 300km to the north of the country. 
So Monday lunchtime Jorge, Zubair, myself and Sean Blaschke (part of the UNICEF technical innovations team, who was accompanying us for the week) piled into a landrover for the long, dusty drive north. Fortunately, worries of ambushes by bandits, and paths laden with mines, proved to be a little over the top -- probably just a result of the ultra-paranoid UN security courses we were made to do -- and we arrived in Gulu safe and sound just before dark.
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