We work around Africa to increase access to basic services, help after humanitarian emergencies and empower girls and women, ultimately helping people lift themselves out of poverty. In these blogs country teams discuss their work and progress towards these and other goals.
We were all crammed in to the 9th floor meeting room of the Ministry of Health on Friday 3rd April, for one of the twice yearly big meetings between the Minister of Health ( Paulo Ivo Garrido ), and development partners. It was …
Friends in the NGO community here in Mozambique have been applauding the recent statement by Margaret J. Pollack, the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the State, in the US delegation statement to the United Nations Commission on Population and Development. …
There has been a flurry of activity here in Maputo, as we prepared for the large annual meeting between the Ministry of Health and its development partners to review the performance of the health sector in 2008. I took my camera …
Hundreds of people trudged up the long hill to Nyanza, many of them wearing something purple, a neckscarf, a wrap, even a purple wristband. The colour purple is the colour of mourning in Rwanda and yesterday, 7th April, was the 15th Anniversary …
In time honoured fashion I managed to trick my kids to run out to see an imaginary friend on April Fools' morning - although I suspect when they get older I'll be on the receiving end. Skimming the Nigerian press, …
Jeanne fiddled with the edge of her gitenge, tracing the pattern in the brown cloth with her finger again and again, telling me her experiences in the Rwandan genocide, and of the years after 1994. I sat in her small …
On Saturday morning, I was pleased to leave behind the office buildings where I’d spent the week, as I drove out to visit the biggest outdoor market in Harare in the downtown high-density suburb called Mbare. Here were row after …
Nyiragongo Volcano looks just like a volcano should - smooth sides, a flat cone, and a trail of smoke wisping from the top. At night time you can even see a red glow reflected off the clouds from inside the …
I have just participated in two days of workshops and a final consensus meeting to come to a joint government and donor view on how the health sector in Mozambique is performing. You will remember from my visits to Gaza …
Just down the road from my house here in Kigali they are fixing the potholes. The holes have been growing bigger everyday as the heavy rains eat into them, and trucks grind away at the loosened tarmac. The workmen start …
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