A flashback to days as a District Health Officer
The visit to Chibuto hospital today was like a trip back in time for me. The picture of the surgical theatre (right) so reminded me of the one I used to run when I was a district health officer in …
Africa
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.
It ain't half hot mum!
I am showing my age now by making reference to this old British sitcom in the title of this blog, but it does sum up the events of today quite well! It was 41 degrees centigrade when we arrived in …
The dead lizard and I
Last night, I had to abandon my room - it was just too hot inside. So I set up on a mattress outside the door under a mango tree. It was a busy night. There was a party on in town. …
Comic Relief Kilimanjaro climb
Nine celebrities arrived in Tanzania this weekend to climb Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief and I was lucky enough to be part of the welcome party! As well as being extremely excited to meet the idols of my teenage years (Gary …
Health promotion and disease prevention: Octavio's new job
It was a real pleasure to meet Octavio Dosantos in the Patrice Lumumba health centre during my recent visit as part of the annual evaluation of the health sectors performance in Mozambique. Octavio had recently been transferred to this health …
Drugs, toilets and statistics
It is day 2 of the field visit of the annual joint review and I am sitting sweating in a dingy hotel room with no functioning air-con, but with a most fantastic sea view. I've attached a shot of the …
The boxes have gone
‘Where’s Rwanda, then?’ asked Terry the packer as he loaded my seven cardboard boxes into his red van. We looked at a map of central Africa and found the small landlocked country, wedged between its giant neighbours the Democratic Republic …
Of money, mice and men in Paoua
We are in the shanty side-streets of Paoua, where crumbling buildings patched with tin crowd in on dusty alleys, and where skinny cats patrol. I am sitting with a group of thirty women, and their attention is focussed on two metal …
Despatch from Paoua
As I flew in to the north west of the country today, the plane banked sharply and circled as it came in to land. On the ground, on the bumpy, dusty bit of cleared bush that acts as a runway, …
Educating girls and watering camels in the Caliphate
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Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on:
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Education, Girls & Women, Nigeria
Recently I spent 3 days travelling in the far NW of Nigeria to the State of Sokoto, once the heart of the Islamic Sokoto Caliphate (kingdom), which ruled much of the interior of W. Africa in the 19th Century. Sokoto …
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