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Growing Perspectives: August 2009
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Stories of life and reflections on change from Zambia '09. Wednesday, August 19, 2009. It feels as though it is four and half minutes to midnight on New Year’s Eve. Last minute conflicts, regrets over the year's happenings, bouts of laughter, reflections on circumstances, and hurried last minute preparations to welcome the New Year accompany the last breaths and struggled mutterings of the old one. Friday, August 14, 2009. Febrile Chills - Sleepless Nights - Morning brings a lucid, cruel, cruel, reality.
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Growing Perspectives: September 2009
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Stories of life and reflections on change from Zambia '09. Sunday, September 20, 2009. So perhaps the canvas brought to Zambia is finished - no more will the child's call of "musungu! What can be done to create it? The return to Canada? Is there something there? Saturday, September 5, 2009. The sun too shines in Calgary. Why will the child born in Calgary have far greater opportunity than the one born in Ndola? Internal roadblocks to change. As difficult as it is for an organization to achieve project su...
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Growing Perspectives: June 2009
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Stories of life and reflections on change from Zambia '09. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. I took this one in Mapalo. I think it is a neat picture. Not an expert photograph like something Ian or Tony can create, but I like the way the shadow dances with the wall. Two to tango. A little music for a change; Pat Metheny's oasis. Monday, June 29, 2009. Sheep in wolf's clothing. So I really had to force myself to write this post, apologies in advance if it feels laboured. Woes of the "field worker". Interview "struct...
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Degnan In Zambia: June 2009
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This blog is about my discoveries, beliefs, and insights from my May-August 2009 placement with Engineers Without Borders Canada. This will be a public record of my journey before, during, and after my volunteer position with IDE in Zambia. Healthy amounts of biased, opinionated thinking out loud will be present. Tuesday, June 30. Why can't we volunteers share some access to technology? This should almost be a policy for JFs! But that makes me consider the prospect of a Zambian doing this as a business&#...
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Degnan In Zambia: 'Cause baby, prevention is better than cure
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This blog is about my discoveries, beliefs, and insights from my May-August 2009 placement with Engineers Without Borders Canada. This will be a public record of my journey before, during, and after my volunteer position with IDE in Zambia. Healthy amounts of biased, opinionated thinking out loud will be present. Friday, July 31. Cause baby, prevention is better than cure. So I haven't updated in a while. Yeah. And onwards to a new group in Lusaka West. We were gauging their potential to join into ID...
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Degnan In Zambia: Chikupi!
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This blog is about my discoveries, beliefs, and insights from my May-August 2009 placement with Engineers Without Borders Canada. This will be a public record of my journey before, during, and after my volunteer position with IDE in Zambia. Healthy amounts of biased, opinionated thinking out loud will be present. Thursday, August 13. Staying in the village was great! Gross Those probably made me sick, since they were impossible to keep off your breakfast and lunch (supper was after dark). Then there's th...
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Degnan In Zambia: May 2009
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This blog is about my discoveries, beliefs, and insights from my May-August 2009 placement with Engineers Without Borders Canada. This will be a public record of my journey before, during, and after my volunteer position with IDE in Zambia. Healthy amounts of biased, opinionated thinking out loud will be present. Sunday, May 31. So, what's up with me going to Africa? So why the heck am I in Africa? In Southern Africa (SA), EWB works in the Agricultural Value Chains (AVC/agric) and Water and Sanitation (w...
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Ghana for the summer: July 2009
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Ghana for the summer. Monday, July 20, 2009. Village Stay in Kandiga (part one). When you think of a village in rural. What comes to mind? Stop and think about it for a minute…. Anyways, the home that I stayed in judging by my observations was a little better off than others but not as wealthy as some. The courtyard, I guess you could call it, was concrete instead of earth, they had zinc metal roofing on all the rooms except for the one I slept on, and they have a solar panel:. I’ve mentioned mille...
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Ghana for the summer: Agric as a Business and development
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Ghana for the summer. Monday, July 20, 2009. Agric as a Business and development. This is one of the things I’m struggling with. Where’s the balance between pragmatic and appropriate, or participatory and teaching? Maybe those aren’t good words to describe the situation, but I think you get the point. Another factor could be farmers paying lip service to please the AEA who gives them fertilizer coupons that reduce the cost of a bag of fertilizer by about half. The Kakungu Farmer's Association. Village St...
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