Moving to a new city with kids can be incredible daunting. Here are some tips to give you a hand. Nearly everything can be found here, but it might be a lot more expensive, or tricky to hunt down, or be worse quality.
What to bring with you.
Car seats are incredibly expensive to buy new here, and often not good quality. Airlines will normally let you bring car seats for free, so it’s worth bringing ones with you.
Non bio washing powder is tricky to find here.
Specific medicines like Tylenol, Motrin, Aquaphor. Vitamins, Sunscreen and mosquito spray that are age appropriate for your child. Humidifier or Calpol air plug-ins for when the kids have a cold.
If you have specific requirements for face/ body washes, shampoo, and lotions, you might want to bring them. You’ll probably be able to find what you want here but at a much greater price.
If you have young children it’s worth bringing BPA free plastic plates and bowls, good quality sippy cups. If you’re making baby food then bring a hand blender with you as they’ll be more expensive here, refillable squeazy pouches and freezer bags. Bottle Brushes. A clip on high chair if you want one that fixes to the table.
Board Books, BPA free toys, toys tend to be expensive here or poor quality, so it’s worth bringing what you can. Shoes, non toxic paint, crayons and chalk. Wooden toys, Duplo, first puzzles. A push along walker and a learning table.
Home safety apparatus, like cupboard locks, sink faucet covers, plug covers. Mosquito net for the push chair.
Kids in Kampala 