Well - I was supposed to be travelling to northern Uganda today for the week, but was held up with issues with the EU and another food aid project, and then suddenly we have four days to write a WFP (World Food Program) Proposal, and I think I will be lucky to go to bed this week, let alone go to the north!! The field teams will just have to ( Read more... )

Well, it's a hot Sunday in Kampala and I am ploughing through emails, trying to clear up a fraction of the hanging work before heading north again tomorrow. This is my least favourite time of year here - in the middle of the dry season the weather is hot and the air is dusty, in the north they are burning the grass and it is brown. This usually ( Read more... )

This is just killing me right now - I am approving a list of patients for medical treatment - they are all former child soldiers, or else children who were “born in captivity” - this means that their mothers were abducted and gave birth whilst child soldiers themselves. Reading this list of injuries, looking at the ages of the patients and ( Read more... )

Originally posted 12 December, 2008 ...This is my time of the year ( Read more... )

Original posted 25 October, 2008 ( Read more... )

Blogger is driving me nuts - it seems to be having major technical issues and won't let me update - hasn't for days. So I thought I would get all dedicated and copy over one or two month-old posts to this LJ instead!!Yipee - I have just been handed a piece of paper that, fingers crossed, will free me from the hotel and get me into a serviced ( Read more... )

I’m thinking of trying this new thing whereby I label all of my posts with the title of a song. Not for any profound reason - mostly for my own amusement. So for this one - I offer you the Hoodoo Gurus ( Read more... )