With Only 500 Uganda Shillings, I made My First Toy Car

Above Picture: Kalyowa Stephen holding one toy head made in the like of an ISUZU damper truck. Today he meets a daily target of 12 toy cars made and dispatched ready for sale.

 

 

 

 

Above Picture: Stephen Arranging the finished head sections to be assembled to make a complete toy car. In the background are jerry cans that formerly contained Engine oil. These are cut out and cleaned, then used constructively. Another good way of recycling plastic.   

 

 

 

Picture Above: In this section, one youth specializes on shaping the toy car tires. They pretty much come in standard sizes guided by circular metallic items. 

 





Above Picture: One youth building the frame for the toy car. He ensures a lot of skill input in his work, checking alignment and proportionality of his construction.

 

 

 

Above Picture: One of the youths putting together the head section. He uses a small metallic rod heated in the charcoal stove to glue carefully cut out shapes from plastic together.

 

 

 Picture Above: A child from a nearby school posing  next one of the finished toys in the image of a heavy duty truck

 

Above Picture: Two employees pose with some of the finished toys

Above Picture: A few of the finished toy cars and motorcycles  at the workshop awaiting delivery to the place of sale

 Above Picture: Some of the toy cars. In the center are two head sections awaiting completion

 

The writer poses with one toy truck made at the workshop.

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