Today we headed into South Sudan, it will probably take us 3 hours to get to the town of Kajo-Keji, just over the border. The purpose is to fit some artificial limbs. A previous visit 3 weeks earlier had taken measurements. En route we had some good banter, some of which was about the… Read More »
Sunday, October 9, was Independence Day here. And little bit of a milestone, 60 years since independence from, yes you guessed it, Britain. Asking around folk said there would be a parade in town. So Sunday late morning (after little sleep courtesy of the JM Kennedy gig) we set off to find it. Everything seemed… Read More »
There were really only two hotel options for my stay; one had a reputation for being ‘lively’ at the weekend, the other was ‘dry’… As Saturday approached we saw a stage being erected and a poster went up in the bar. Jm Kennedy (sic) was playing. I asked around and this chap was an… Read More »
Friday was quite a long day, but yet another I will never forget. I was on a zoom to HHA(UK) and we finished after 5, maybe half-past. It had been a long week, since leaving London the previous Saturday. My partner in crime here (“PT”) was long ready to leave, but as we were… Read More »
Week one passes so quickly. The days are long as they are book-ended by a 30-40 minute drive to/from our hotel to the Disability Centre. Yes that’s right I did say hotel. The CEO wants me to come back next year, so I think he’s breaking me in gently. There is an accommodation block for… Read More »
So normally the down-time comes after a few weeks, or months into the deployment, but not this time. After 2 pretty long flights, on the first of which I left my glasses (doh!), we arrive at Entebbe Airport on Lake Victoria. After getting in the wrong (aka slowest) line for immigration, we collected our bags… Read More »
After 18 months in Haiti, my ‘time out’ seems to have been very short as I now find myself in the North-West of Uganda, at the Hope Health Action (HHA) Disability Centre in Bidi-Bidi, once the worlds largest refugee camp, as a result of conflict in South Sudan. With travel taking essentially 3 days each… Read More »
I have been back two weeks now and it seems as if it’s been two months so much has happened in such a short space of time. It feels good to be back, not that I don’t miss family and friends back home; but because there is so much work to do here – so… Read More »
So, I have had a few days in the Turks & Caicos Islands (and if I am honest, got bored on Day 2). Now I am having a few more days R&R, this time in the Bahamas (and if I am honest, the boredom didn’t start until Day 3). But as with TCI, it… Read More »
Yes, who ever said that? 2 weeks or so ago I was about the plan my trip home with the prospect on 10 days quarantine on return to the UK; when the British Government announced a radical change its Covid Travel Restrictions; only 7 countries remained in its ‘Red List’, all other countries were considered… Read More »