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March 13, 2010 - 19:36

a HEALTHY LOOK…

So I came across this cool site today called Information Is Beautiful, a site that basically takes ideas, issues, knowledge, data, and visualizes it. For a visual learner like me, this was bit ...
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March 13, 2010 - 19:36

The Effect of Suffering and Death

  Congolese live in extreme poverty conditions. Many of them suffer and die from preventable and treatable diseases and conditions. They see family members suffer and die. Even so ...
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March 13, 2010 - 17:23

Is migration at fault for poor healthcare in Africa?

You can probably guess what I think. Here is the OECD and WHO: What is the impact of migration on less developed countries? “In 2000, all African-born doctors and nurses working in the OECD ...
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March 13, 2010 - 15:51

Easterly on Millenium Villages

“Sachs is essentially trying to create an island of success in a sea of failure, and maybe he’s done that, but it doesn’t address the sea of failure.” via Derrill Watson
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March 13, 2010 - 15:51

What’s going on?

All kinds of stuff actually, but it was Friday before I realized I had no photos of any of it. I had spent most of the week between a few home visits and (mostly) buried under mounds of paperwork, ...
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March 13, 2010 - 13:37

No news is... no news!

Apologies to people who have been checking in to see the update of the China situation; everything is on track but we haven't yet been able to make a start. Blue Dragon staff will be accompanying ...
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March 13, 2010 - 08:21

I was lucky and that is why I am still alive

As you know, I did not like school. Except for one subject: Geography. And that is why, probably, I am running around in this lovely world. But the man below might have been instrumental for ...
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March 13, 2010 - 06:20

‘Round the World in 8 Bottles!

On my final day with the team at the GTZ Health Programme, my fellow technical staff and I were treated to a wine tasting event with Remie (@Vinotage). Got to support a budding entrepreneur and ...
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March 13, 2010 - 02:21

Lessons Learned

What I learned working for a huge INGO: relationships matter. More than you think. On top of everything else, you have to have good people skills in this business. Which makes sense, since this ...
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March 13, 2010 - 02:21

Staff security - about being a pain in the ass

Have been involved in most humanitarian emergencies since I started this job, back in 1994, with a break of the last four years when I took a sabbatical, and worked for three years in our ...
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March 12, 2010 - 18:53

UN to LEAVE Congo...

Reprinted from BBC News. It should be interesting to see what comes in the days following. The UN is far from perfect in their work in the DRC, but I also think they are keeping a lot from ...
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March 12, 2010 - 17:20

the way it is supposed to work

Since things rarely happen the way they are supposed to, it is important to take note when they do. To shout. To laugh. M.U. went home today, cured. He was one of those rare kids who came in ...
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March 12, 2010 - 17:20

Bird watching

Every afternoon at around 5.00, I go to my office window and look outside because I have been watching something which happens every day around this time, just before the sky turns pink and ...
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March 12, 2010 - 17:20

A Near Endless Supply of Water

Underground cisterns can provide a good source of clean and safe drinking water. Rain water can be collected in the cisterns. Also, a water from a well can be stored in a cistern during low ...
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March 12, 2010 - 13:50

He made it home!

Taylor arrived safe and sound in Nairobi a few hours ago. He got some lunch, a nap and is enjoying a hot shower. Thanks for all your prayers. Updates about his trip will be up soon!
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March 12, 2010 - 07:50

The Political Economy of Boreholes in Southern Sudan

From SudanVotes.com…  “boreholes are the cause of frequent fights amongst women. There are simply not enough bore holes to go around the population and thus it is the principle of first come ...
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March 12, 2010 - 07:50

Richard Dowden on Nigeria

“Would ordinary Nigerians have felt Yar’Adua’s absence? Since the experience of the Nigerian state for most Nigerians is limited to demands for bribes by officials and policemen, the government ...
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March 12, 2010 - 04:51

Changes upon changes

So. End of the third day back in Haiti. I was out for only two weeks: a nanosecond in long-term development terms. But time enough for a total sea-change in the emergency response world. In the ...
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March 12, 2010 - 02:21

Mary Boyoi – Sudan Campaign Poster

Getting posters printed this week to send to Sudan. Mary had to scrape some money together in Juba just to get it done. Her party, South Sudan Democratic Forum, does not have very deep pockets ...
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March 11, 2010 - 19:38

A particularly French emotion

Some time ago in HDEO I wrote about “La Honte”, which I thought meant simply “shame”, or “embarrassment”. I used it in a pub in front of a crowd of French football fans when Thierry Henry ...
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