Archive for September 2012
20 years ago I embarked on my first development job with Students Partnership Worldwide (SPW) - SPW has since changed its name to Restless Development and is leading the charge in youth-led development. As a naïve but an adventurous 18-year-old volunteer, I spent a year in a remote rural school in the north east of Zimbabwe. Those [...]
I got ahead of myself in my last blog and didn't reflect on my first impressions returning to Malawi after 20 years. My arrival at Lilongwe airport, and the drive to the capital highlighted a couple of major changes in Malawi over the last 20 years. The airport is clean and well organised, but thankfully the [...]
I went to a fantastic lecture at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on the 12th of September - it was the annual John Snow Pump Handle Lecture. I had decided to walk as it was a nice evening, but having only allowed myself half an hour to get there I had a mad dash across [...]
I have had a bit of a hiatus in my blogging since leaving Mozambique back in July 2011. I took up my new job as Head of Profession for Health full-time in August 2011, but it has taken me a while to make the most of the opportunity this job gives to use my blog [...]
