What am I doing here?

….it’s a fair question….and it occurs to me that I haven’t written about the projects that I’m working on since they were confirmed. This took several weeks and I have been hindered by lack of internet since then, hence radio silence. That aside here is a brief summary of what I’m doing here: 1 – …

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Superfastwaterpumping

Don’t do this.

Amusing as this might be, it’s pretty much a lesson in how not to use a water pump. They break when treated like this.

Stories

We’ve met with several communities recently who have requested assistance, or who have previously received assistance and now want to discuss further development needs. The first part of the process is getting to know them. While a baseline survey will eventually yield solid data about a village, we start by asking them to tell us …

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Malaria often kills people?

A trailer for a quiz programme here in Ghana called the Good Life Game Show features the presenter asking the question “Malaria often kills people – true or false?”. When I first saw it, I thought it was crazy. It’s so obvious. Then I realised how relaxed attitudes towards malaria are here. Many of the …

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Village meeting

Last week we took a trip to a nearby village to discuss their sanitation action plan with them. This was the village where they’d previously shown up an hour and a half early and gone home and I’d met the guy who claimed to have spent 12 years in Côte d’Ivoire who may be crazy. …

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