Archive for November 2010
A really interesting part of my trip to Manica last week was a visit to Sussundenga Health Centre, which is situated about 42 km from Chimoio down a red, dry baked earth, dirt road. The conditions of the road were good - it was a hot dry day and the temperature was about 36 degrees. However, [...]
Most of us love a bit of technology that will make our lives easier or save us money. I don’t know how I got by before I had my iPhone – and I’m a bit of a Luddite. These days there are loads of technologies that both save us money and help us do our bit [...]
Picking up where I left off in my last blog, I want to focus on the Manica bed net story. The main reason for my visit last week was to evaluate the Malaria Consortium project that DFID has been funding over the last five years. If you want to know more then I recommend you follow this link to [...]
Working in various developing countries for a long time (I've been overseas now for around 15 years) sometimes gives me first hand evidence of how initiatives can grow and adapt over time – and often for the best. Ten years ago I was working in the Ministry of Education in The Gambia and a VSO [...]
I took this picture while hiking in the north of Grenada recently. I love it for many reasons, most of them are obvious. However, and you will probably laugh at this, I also thought it would be a great visual for describing the adaptation challenges in small islands like those in the Caribbean and thinking [...]
I have just returned from a three day visit to Manica province, which is an hour and a half flight north of Maputo in the centre of Mozambique, bordering Zimbabwe. The capital of the province is in the city of Chomoio, which is a bustling town with tree lined streets and with a small airport just [...]
I have just returned from a break at home with my family. I find being away from them one of the hardest challenges of living here. When I do see them it’s often difficult to fully explain life in Afghanistan. Unless you’ve been here it’s hard to imagine, and the images shown in the media [...]
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Recent comments
- Anne Philpott on 'Commitment to win the battle against undernutrition': Thanks Dan, I totally agree that we need more horizontal or nutrition ‘ sensitive’ programmes in which existing...
- Harsh Sahay on 'What WHO is helping to achieve in India': Good Job
- Zeeshan Siddique on 'I see change coming in Pakistan': Dear DFID Representative for KP It has been evident that you cannot achieve prosperity and integrity until increasing the bar of education in...
