Regular readers will have noticed that things have been quiet around here for a while. I’ll be back to blogging properly in a while. In the meantime, I am dead impressed by this collection of very ...

Our flight landed after 2am and I thought the whole visa on arrival process was going to be pretty easy, what with the Pakistani government putting it in place for aid workers and all. Elaine made ...

I'd never been to Dubai before, so I was excited to get out of the airport hotel on a four hour tour. While I was waiting in the lobby with my brand new RedR hat in hand, I was spotted by Steve, ...

It's the grand opening party for our new store and for this weekend only we're offering 20% off everything!! Come and celebrate with us! Use discount code "newstoreparty" at checkout to receive ...

This is a story about when 3 college aged girls were put together in a dorm room made for 2 college aged girls. 2 of the girls were white and 1 was black. 1 of the white girls was a well-to-do ...

Pastor Al preached Sunday about the thief next to Jesus on the crosses there outside Jerusalem 2000 years ago. We've read that story a hundred times, more probably, but this time it really stuck ...

That is twi (pronounced 'chwee', the principal native language of Ghana), for Welcome. I was just welcomed to Ghana by a sign in the airport which read something as ...

The New York Times Magazine is running this article on Plumpy'Nut. Which in theory I have a pretty soft spot for. I'm not in health policy or practice, but in terms of its success rate it's pretty ...

After what seems like FOREVER...We have a new online store, and we are super excited! The SHONA ladies have been sewing up a storm and I've spent weeks staring at HTML, taking photos, counting our ...

Our Scottish Government has awarded £75,000 to Islamic Relief’s Pakistan floods response. The grant was announced today by First Minister Rt Hon. Alex Salmond at the Edinburgh Blackhall Mosque in ...

From the poor suburbs of Dar es Salaam, Jagwa Music play a style of music with chakacha roots known as mchiriku. Jagwa Music guarantees to set any concert venue ablaze with explosive performances ...

The list of blogging aidworkers grows. Here are my latest additions: After Africa: Long time blogger and cyberfriend Pernille faces her new challenge: after years in Bosnia, Uganda and Tanzania, ...

Still more troops needed, says Petraeus. Yes, that right. What can’t be accomplished with 60,000 soldiers will be accomplished with 80,000. Or maybe 100,000. That’s what we’ve been doing wrong. ...

Over the past week, I have been on the road quite a bit - hence the blogging silence. Today I am blogging from a cafe in Saigon. First stop on my trip was Hue, where Blue Dragon runs a program to ...

I saw the quote above today. It’s from Ralph Waldo Emerson. It’s been a busy summer. Lots of challenge, lots of opportunity, lots of (I think) growth. But what I’ve loved is the relatively small ...

I’m no Rwanda expert. I’ve only been there once, for about 3 weeks. I worked with a group of about 10 Rwandese, most of them in their early 20s, and a couple in their mid 30s to 40s. During those ...

I’m one of those lucky people who has memories pretty far back. The first one I have is of me getting in trouble. The dining room around the corner from the kitchen was dark so it must have been ...

I’m one of those lucky people who has memories pretty far back. The first one I have is of me getting in trouble. The dining room around the corner from the kitchen was dark so it must have been ...

I grew up in a mid-sized city in the Midwest. Most people there were white, including myself and my family. When we first moved there I was about 4. We lived on this side of the railroad tracks. ...

When I lived in Northern Uganda was the first time I realized that for all the shocking horrors in the world - the deaths out of nowhere, the violence that you can't conceive, the pain that you ...