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Lucy in Nigeria: July 2010
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Sannu da zuwa. Welcome to my blog. Saturday, 17 July 2010. I feel that my first post has to start with my fundraising efforts. Despite having now completed seven months of indepth research and training, I still struggle myself with understanding exactly how VSO works and what I am about to embark upon. So I will try my best to explain it to you. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The views expressed in this blog are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of VSO. Dutse, Jigawa State, Nigeria.
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Lucy in Nigeria: September 2010
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Sannu da zuwa. Welcome to my blog. Thursday, 30 September 2010. United Bank of Africa - UBA. During my first few days of In Country Training we were advised by VSOs Big Man on how to open a bank account so we can be paid our allowance. At this point the new volunteers had no idea how difficult this would be. You will be proud to know that I am actually the only VSO I know of in Nigeria that has managed to open an account, and it was pretty easy too! I have highlighted 4 points to give you a sense of UBA.
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Lucy in Nigeria: September 2011
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Sannu da zuwa. Welcome to my blog. Sunday, 11 September 2011. 1 Year Old in Nigeria. I am happy to announce that I have reached my 1 year mark for my VSO experience here in Dutse, Jigawa State. And although I have been here for over a year now, I am still having many new experiences. Here is one ‘wonderful’ example that I would like to share with you:. Then, happily trekking back from a different adventure a few days later (greeting our guards wives) we witnessed many children playing ‘Durbar! Dutse, Jig...
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Lucy in Nigeria: July 2011
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Sannu da zuwa. Welcome to my blog. Monday, 11 July 2011. Muslim women in Jigawa State. E females in the SSIT had the idea to make a uniform for themselves. This is usually only done for special occassions such as weddings. The men were very upset not to be included! Jigawa State is predominantly Muslim and the vast majority of women in Jigawa State practice Purdah. As you can then guess, my contact with women in Nigeria has been minimal. Statistics of Muslim women I have met:. Whenever I am fortunate to ...
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Lucy in Nigeria: March 2011
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Sannu da zuwa. Welcome to my blog. Monday, 28 March 2011. Muslim Men in Jigawa State. These young men are actually from Kano State (a neighbouring state). They are posing in an English fashion, i.e. smiling - Nigerian's normally just keep a straight face. Every morning when the men greet they shake hands very enthusiastically and pat each other on the back. You may still find them shaking hands five minutes later. You can easily find men and boys dressed in pink or purple or wearing very flowery prints!
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Lucy in Nigeria: October 2010
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Sannu da zuwa. Welcome to my blog. Saturday, 30 October 2010. During my first few days in Nigeria I was given the nickname 'Queen of Jigawa! This was because I was the first volunteer to be sent to Jigawa, the furthest, hottest and most Northern State. When hearing that I was going to Jigawa, Nigerian eyes would widen. All they could tell me was that it was 'soo far' and 'soo hot! Jenny and Simon, visiting from Kaduna, are enjoying a G and T on my well. . . until a cockroach came and sent us ...The house...
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Lucy in Nigeria: December 2010
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Sannu da zuwa. Welcome to my blog. Wednesday, 15 December 2010. I have just read Beth's blog about the Muslim Festival that happened in November. The 'second sallah.' You may remember a previous blog post about the 'first sallah' when we went to Kano to celebrate. We had a lovely time and I learnt some good cooking skills and market tips from the others. The second most wonderful moment was on the third day of the parades, all the women and children came out of the homes to watch the parades. I hardl...
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Lucy in Nigeria: January 2011
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Sannu da zuwa. Welcome to my blog. Monday, 31 January 2011. Those of you who know me well will know that I am a clean person. But whilst I haven’t been sick yet (touch wood) it is difficult to keep up with UK hygiene standards in the kitchen. For example,. 2 Ants are everywhere. You drop a few grains of sugar and ants cover your worktop. It is difficult to keep them out of the kitchen so I often cook around them! 5 Again, we are killing chickens and cleaning up raw meat mess with the same cloths used for...
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Lucy in Nigeria: June 2011
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Sannu da zuwa. Welcome to my blog. Monday, 20 June 2011. Things that made me smile last week. . . 1 I met a man (slim changes it would be a female) who told me he had been to England. His second sentence was: ‘There are no goats in England! 8217; Here in Dutse, it would be very strange to go out and not see a goat on the streets. 2 I visited a very large primary school to meet a Head Teacher and I found him sat at his desk listening to the radio because he had nothing else to do! View my complete profile.
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Lucy in Nigeria: August 2010
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Sannu da zuwa. Welcome to my blog. Friday, 27 August 2010. So this week, supported by an excellent consultant, we delivered the Financial Planning workshop to the State School Improvement Team. (See previous post). Surprisingly I wasn’t nervous, and I have discovered that teaching adults is just the same as teaching children! Ew female members have been recruited, which will provide excellent role models in the schools and workplaces. Our workshop has been very successful and I have especially enjoyed li...