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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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Summer experience in Burkina Faso!: June 2009
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Summer experience in Burkina Faso! Saturday, June 27, 2009. Section 3 and 4! Back to work missy. On Monday after the party I decided I wasn’t going to waste a single day and that I would go to the Ouagadougou office. I planned a meeting with the president twice before we actually got to talk, but once we started talking it ended up taking 3.5 hours. He is a great character, full of potential and determination and ideas! Et puis cette soirée la j’ai pu célébrer la Saint Jean! De retour à la maison. Oh...
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Luigi in Burkina Faso: July 2009
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Luigi in Burkina Faso. Thursday, July 9, 2009. May 30, 2009. A little bit about where I am…. I arrived at Gomponsom on the evening of May 19 on the back of Abdoulaye’s Yamaha 100cc motorcycle, obediently wearing my helmet, and wondering what my home for the next 3 months would look like. Abdoulaye is my counterpart, and I’ll be working with him a great deal this summer. Riding on the back of Abdoulaye's motorcycle. My first impression of Gomponsom was that it was full of large open spaces. Imagine yo...
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Summer experience in Burkina Faso!: August 2009
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Summer experience in Burkina Faso! Tuesday, August 4, 2009. Je viens de faire un beau retour à Koudougou. Ma dernière semaine avec ma famille. Je commence à ressentir le stress de la fin qui approche. Je me sent si bien ici et je veux travailler si fort, puis en même temps je veux passer tout mon temps avec la famille et les amis. Moi qui essaye de faire des crêpes. sans spatule. Les enfants qui étaient à la maison ce matin là. La dernière des grandes soeurs! Ensuite les coordonateurs, ceux qui s'occupen...
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Growing Perspectives: Full House
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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. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia. View my complete profile. Mike H in Zambia.
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Growing Perspectives: Changing Change?
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Stories of life and reflections on change from Zambia '09. Friday, August 7, 2009. Projects may take a patriarchal point of view, one of 'helping' a community. If the community is not actively involved at all levels there is great potential for the project to fall apart. If a community doesn't actively desire change in one way or another are solutions being forced in a way of "we know more, it's our obligation to free the masses from their ignorance? Is there a distinction at the end of the day? Many dev...
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Growing Perspectives: Stuck inside of Lusaka with the Malaria blues again
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Stories of life and reflections on change from Zambia '09. Tuesday, August 11, 2009. Stuck inside of Lusaka with the Malaria blues again. The plan was perfect - leave Ndola. Early on Sunday morning to arrive in Lusaka by Noon. Spend the day in Lusaka doing last minute preparations and final work related emails and then head to Kasama. For a village stay. Head to the market on Sunday and grab a gift or two for my intended host family, eat a good meal and most importantly GET SOME SLEEP! In the evening the...
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Growing Perspectives: July 2009
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Stories of life and reflections on change from Zambia '09. Wednesday, July 29, 2009. The ties that bind? Some ideas on functionality, assets, behaviour, and perceptions. As I near the end of my placement I have finished my BSF. Programme study. To elucidate, my work has focused on the impact of Biosand. Filters on households and how their functionality is influenced by assets, behaviours, and perceptions within households and communities. Looking at how intervention projects, such as the BSF. Note each a...