onsdag 30 september 2009
Bangasu by / village
Alla bilderna nedan är från byn Bangasu, som ligger ca 20 min från Makpandu. Jag åkte dit igår för att göra en utvärdering av vattensituationen - och förhoppningsvis få pengar till att hjälpa även lokalbefolkningen runt lägret (som i många fall har det värre än flyktingarna). Otroligt vacker by, utspridd i grönskan. Kul med något annorlunda för några timmar.
All the pictures below are from Bangasu, a village about 20 min from Makpandu. I went there yesterday to conduct an assessment of the watsan situation there, to hopefully get funding for a project which will benefit the host community (which often is in a poorer situation than the refugees). It was a nice day and nice with a change of scenery - until the rain started pouring down and we had to run back to our car. Good exercise! ;)
En av skolbygnaderna / One of the school buildings
Mera skola
Den finare delen av skolan / The nicer part of the school
All the pictures below are from Bangasu, a village about 20 min from Makpandu. I went there yesterday to conduct an assessment of the watsan situation there, to hopefully get funding for a project which will benefit the host community (which often is in a poorer situation than the refugees). It was a nice day and nice with a change of scenery - until the rain started pouring down and we had to run back to our car. Good exercise! ;)
En av skolbygnaderna / One of the school buildings
Mera skola
Den finare delen av skolan / The nicer part of the schoolVeckans suddiga bilder / Blurry photos of the week
Här är jag på utvärdering i regnskogen (typ)! Otroligt grönt och på vissa ställen gick vi på små stigar med 2 m högt gräs på sidorna. Doing an assessment of the water and sanitation situation in a village about 20 minutes from the refugee camp. As you can see the forest was wild and in some places I was walking through 2 m high grass. Amazing. And nice people - who are in a much worse watsan situation than the refugees...
Teakskog, planterad på 50-talet enligt en källa. Fint var det.
Teak forest, apparently planted in the 1950s. Beutiful light - unfortunately I am a lousy photographer...
Trött och med feber i lördags kväll. Mauro lagade en jättegod middag, 3 rätter. Jag sov middag medan han lagade mat, men hjälpte iaf till med dukning och fruktsallad. Lite jämställt får det ju vara.
Teakskog, planterad på 50-talet enligt en källa. Fint var det.Teak forest, apparently planted in the 1950s. Beutiful light - unfortunately I am a lousy photographer...
Trött och med feber i lördags kväll. Mauro lagade en jättegod middag, 3 rätter. Jag sov middag medan han lagade mat, men hjälpte iaf till med dukning och fruktsallad. Lite jämställt får det ju vara. Me very tired and with a fever, from our small party Saturday night. Mauro did almost all the cooking while I slept in the afternoon. But, I helped make fruit salad and set the table. Now I am starting to see the upside to living with Italians - oh the nice pasta! :)
Anne (från Norge, men hon är bra ändå ;)) och Mauro
Anne (från Norge, men hon är bra ändå ;)) och MauroAnne from Norway, also working here in Yambio, and Mauro
tisdag 29 september 2009
Lycka...
...är att laga amerikanska bananpannkakor för första gången i Yambio - och att äta något annat än ris, bönor och kex! Igår kväll lagade jag pannkakorna till Anne (en norsk kollega på UNHCR) som var sjuk. Och dom blev så goda! Vi har inte haft stekpanna innan, men till lördagens lilla fest så tog en av italienarna med sig en stekpanna hemifrån sig. Den har jag ju snott! Och tänker inte lämna tillbaka! Tänk vad en sån enkelt sak som pannkakor till frukost kan göra en så glad...
Här är det väldigt stressigt för tillfället. Jag är ensam på kontoret med ca 25 anställda. Men, än så länge går det bra. Snart kommer mer uppdateringar om senaste dagarna - har massa foton jag vill visa!
Mauro är i Kampala och inhandlar grejer till projektet - och havregryn till mig. Han är fullt medveten om att det inte är lönt att återvända utan! ;) Såna här småsaker som frukost och variation i maten gör så mycket.
Kram
And in English: happiness is American Banana Pancakes! Made my own last night, they turned out so well and I am so happy that I will be able to eat something different in the future - now that I have borrowed (hmm, stolen...) a frying pan. Stressful week, am alone at the office, so lots to do.
Här är det väldigt stressigt för tillfället. Jag är ensam på kontoret med ca 25 anställda. Men, än så länge går det bra. Snart kommer mer uppdateringar om senaste dagarna - har massa foton jag vill visa!
Mauro är i Kampala och inhandlar grejer till projektet - och havregryn till mig. Han är fullt medveten om att det inte är lönt att återvända utan! ;) Såna här småsaker som frukost och variation i maten gör så mycket.
Kram
And in English: happiness is American Banana Pancakes! Made my own last night, they turned out so well and I am so happy that I will be able to eat something different in the future - now that I have borrowed (hmm, stolen...) a frying pan. Stressful week, am alone at the office, so lots to do.
måndag 28 september 2009
Makpandu
This kid is actually terrified of me. He started screaming as soon as he saw me. Then when I came closer he went quiet, but then started screaming again. I stretched out my hand so he could touch it, which made him a bit calm - until I pulled out my camera and he started screaming again. So, now I have traumatized a child for life... ;)
Inne i skolan / Inside the school
Uppställning vid skolan i Makpandu / Lining up for school in Makpandumåndag 21 september 2009
The end of prayers in Makpandu
Den här videon filmade jag i torsdag, sista dagen på bönedagar i Makpandu för att be för fred (och markera att det är ett år sen många av dem lämnade DRC).
Prayers for peace in Makpandu and for marking that it is one year since many of them left DRC to flee to Sudan from LRA attacks.
söndag 20 september 2009
Lite bilder från Yambio / Some pictures from Yambio
Detta är vägen från UNICEF (där vi mailar) till vårt hus. Jag går här ganska ofta, när jag inte är lat och kör...This is the road from the UNICEF compound to our house. I walk here often - when I am not lazy and driving.
Women walking near the lake in Yambio
Beautiful
Sjön i Yambio - dit folk kommer för att bada (bara män), tvätta bilar, tanka vatten etc. The lake in Yambio.
Skylten jag beställde, som ska sitta vid tvättplatsen vi byggde. Jag tycker den blev himla fin!
Skylten jag beställde, som ska sitta vid tvättplatsen vi byggde. Jag tycker den blev himla fin! The sign I ordered, which we will put up by the washing area. Like how it says "soap" on the soap. Good. :)
lördag 19 september 2009
Om Yambio och Makpandu
SUDAN: Security forces struggle as LRA attacks escalate
Ameerah Haq, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, meets civilians who fled LRA raids on their homes, during a visit to Yambio, Western Equatoria StateYAMBIO, 14 September 2009 (IRIN) - Attacks attributed to Ugandan-led rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have killed at least 188 civilians and displaced 68,000 in Southern Sudan since January 2009, with 137 abductions also reported, according to the UN. "Many innocent people are losing their lives every week, and the United Nations is very concerned about the killing, abduction, maiming and displacement of innocent civilians," said Ameerah Haq, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan.
In Sudan, Western Equatoria State has been hardest hit by the recent upsurge in attacks blamed on the LRA, which have also taken place in several regions in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR). "During the last six weeks alone, 11 incidents of LRA attacks have been reported, seven of them in the first week of September," Haq told reporters on 11 September during a visit to Yambio, the state capital of Western Equatoria.
In Nairobi, Justin Labeja, the head of the LRA's peace negotiating team, questioned the authorship of the attacks. "It is very unfair because nobody can come up with clear concrete evidence. Who can say this is the LRA of [leader Joseph] Kony who is doing this?" he said. What the "real LRA" is any more is hard to pin down. When it emerged in northern Uganda in the late 1980s the LRA was made up almost exclusively of people from the region's Acholi community, fighting perceived marginalization. The LRA now includes nationals from Sudan, the DRC and CAR - many as a result of recruitment-by-abduction. In Southern Sudan "LRA" has been used as a catch-all label for any armed group which attacks civilians. However, those displaced by the latest attacks reported tactics which bore the hallmarks of the LRA, including grotesque killings and targeting church congregations.
Southern Sudanese who fled LRA raids on their villages, waiting for food aid in Yambio, Western Equatoria State Hard task Combating the small groups of guerrillas - experienced in jungle warfare and able to slip across international frontiers with apparent ease - has become a hard task. "There is not much coming from the [Sudanese] state, they are not able to provide the security that they [people] need," said the UN’s Haq. "While the humanitarian community is providing food and other non-food items, the food itself is becoming a magnet for LRA attacks… The answer to that is really how we can provide security around a perimeter." Extra troops from the south’s military, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), have been sent to the region, according to spokesman Maj-Gen Kuol Diem Kuol. "We are working hard and doing all we can to ensure the safety of ci vilians in the region," he explained. The main military force are Ugandan troops, whose soldiers have established camps in Sudan to try and hunt down the now mobile LRA units in Southern Sudan, DRC and CAR.
The UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan (UNMIS) has just 200 blue helmets based in the sprawling region of Western Equatoria. UN stretched Officials said the force has been stretched by a string of recent violent inter-ethnic clashes elsewhere in Southern Sudan. Its mandate, one official added, needed to be beefed up by the UN Security Council to allow active military engagement against the LRA. "We need an integrated approach to really provide security to these people, [and] that will require the support of the UN and UNMIS," said Jemma Nunu Kumba, the governor of Western Equatoria. "UNMIS needs to get involved just like MONUC [the UN peacekeeping mission] in Congo [DRC], to be able to repulse the rebels when they are attacking the civilians," he added.
The LRA will remain a problem and we will be unable to go home until pressure is really put on them by all sides Those displaced by the LRA say more effort is needed, not simply to hunt the rebels, but to provide security that would allow people to return to their homes. "The LRA have killed our people, and they took two of my children," said Karina Zeferino, who fled after attacks in August on her hometown of Ezo, close to Sudan’s border with CAR. She trekked the 155km to Yambio town with her remaining young daughter. After the attacks, peacekeepers airlifted UN staff and aid workers from Ezo by helicopter, shutting down international humanitarian work in that area. "People are suffering, but we cannot go home because the LRA will attack again," added Zeferino, holding her child tightly to her side. "There is no help for us there, so that is why we have come to Yambio, but it is hard here too."
"The LRA will remain a problem and we will be unable to go home until pressure is really put on them by all sides," said Gaaniko Bate, a leader of the ever-growing Makpandu camp in Southern Sudan, which hosts some 2,530 refugees from DRC. "These people will not be easily stopped," he added.
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Gaaniko is the camp leader in Makpandu who I deal with a lot in work - nice to see him mentioned here! I am printing the article for him.
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Gaaniko är ledare för Makpandu och jag träffar honom nästan varje dag. Kul att han nämndes i artikeln - jag ska skriva ut artikeln åt honom!
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http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=86140
Ameerah Haq, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, meets civilians who fled LRA raids on their homes, during a visit to Yambio, Western Equatoria StateYAMBIO, 14 September 2009 (IRIN) - Attacks attributed to Ugandan-led rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have killed at least 188 civilians and displaced 68,000 in Southern Sudan since January 2009, with 137 abductions also reported, according to the UN. "Many innocent people are losing their lives every week, and the United Nations is very concerned about the killing, abduction, maiming and displacement of innocent civilians," said Ameerah Haq, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan.
In Sudan, Western Equatoria State has been hardest hit by the recent upsurge in attacks blamed on the LRA, which have also taken place in several regions in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR). "During the last six weeks alone, 11 incidents of LRA attacks have been reported, seven of them in the first week of September," Haq told reporters on 11 September during a visit to Yambio, the state capital of Western Equatoria.
In Nairobi, Justin Labeja, the head of the LRA's peace negotiating team, questioned the authorship of the attacks. "It is very unfair because nobody can come up with clear concrete evidence. Who can say this is the LRA of [leader Joseph] Kony who is doing this?" he said. What the "real LRA" is any more is hard to pin down. When it emerged in northern Uganda in the late 1980s the LRA was made up almost exclusively of people from the region's Acholi community, fighting perceived marginalization. The LRA now includes nationals from Sudan, the DRC and CAR - many as a result of recruitment-by-abduction. In Southern Sudan "LRA" has been used as a catch-all label for any armed group which attacks civilians. However, those displaced by the latest attacks reported tactics which bore the hallmarks of the LRA, including grotesque killings and targeting church congregations.
Southern Sudanese who fled LRA raids on their villages, waiting for food aid in Yambio, Western Equatoria State Hard task Combating the small groups of guerrillas - experienced in jungle warfare and able to slip across international frontiers with apparent ease - has become a hard task. "There is not much coming from the [Sudanese] state, they are not able to provide the security that they [people] need," said the UN’s Haq. "While the humanitarian community is providing food and other non-food items, the food itself is becoming a magnet for LRA attacks… The answer to that is really how we can provide security around a perimeter." Extra troops from the south’s military, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), have been sent to the region, according to spokesman Maj-Gen Kuol Diem Kuol. "We are working hard and doing all we can to ensure the safety of ci vilians in the region," he explained. The main military force are Ugandan troops, whose soldiers have established camps in Sudan to try and hunt down the now mobile LRA units in Southern Sudan, DRC and CAR.
The UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan (UNMIS) has just 200 blue helmets based in the sprawling region of Western Equatoria. UN stretched Officials said the force has been stretched by a string of recent violent inter-ethnic clashes elsewhere in Southern Sudan. Its mandate, one official added, needed to be beefed up by the UN Security Council to allow active military engagement against the LRA. "We need an integrated approach to really provide security to these people, [and] that will require the support of the UN and UNMIS," said Jemma Nunu Kumba, the governor of Western Equatoria. "UNMIS needs to get involved just like MONUC [the UN peacekeeping mission] in Congo [DRC], to be able to repulse the rebels when they are attacking the civilians," he added.
The LRA will remain a problem and we will be unable to go home until pressure is really put on them by all sides Those displaced by the LRA say more effort is needed, not simply to hunt the rebels, but to provide security that would allow people to return to their homes. "The LRA have killed our people, and they took two of my children," said Karina Zeferino, who fled after attacks in August on her hometown of Ezo, close to Sudan’s border with CAR. She trekked the 155km to Yambio town with her remaining young daughter. After the attacks, peacekeepers airlifted UN staff and aid workers from Ezo by helicopter, shutting down international humanitarian work in that area. "People are suffering, but we cannot go home because the LRA will attack again," added Zeferino, holding her child tightly to her side. "There is no help for us there, so that is why we have come to Yambio, but it is hard here too."
"The LRA will remain a problem and we will be unable to go home until pressure is really put on them by all sides," said Gaaniko Bate, a leader of the ever-growing Makpandu camp in Southern Sudan, which hosts some 2,530 refugees from DRC. "These people will not be easily stopped," he added.
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Gaaniko is the camp leader in Makpandu who I deal with a lot in work - nice to see him mentioned here! I am printing the article for him.
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Gaaniko är ledare för Makpandu och jag träffar honom nästan varje dag. Kul att han nämndes i artikeln - jag ska skriva ut artikeln åt honom!
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http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=86140
Marknad i Makpandu / Market in Makpandu
Här äter jag lunch varje dag jag är i Makpandu - alltid bönor och ris. Ingen smaksensation, men det mättar.This is the market in Makpandu where I eat lunch everyday I am in Makpandu. Always the same: beans and rice. Not very taste, but it fills its purpose.
"Staden" Yambio / The "town" of Yambio
Så här ser det ut i Yambio, när man lämnar huvudgatan. Helt underbart. Igår hälsade jag på våran städerska som dragit ut 2 tänder nyligen och är hemma sjuk. Det var roligt att se hennes hem, men inte lika kul att se hur dåligt hon mådde.
Tvättplats / Washing area
Mitt första konkreta projekt - en tvättplats dit kvinnor kan komma och tvätta kläder utan att skapa stora vattenpölar. Vi hittade frivilliga som hjälpte till med arbetet och efter en halv dag så var tvättplatsen klar! Igår blev jag så glad när jag såg att den faktiskt användes - och verkade fungera! Så nu ska vi göra såna här vid varje handpump.
My first practical project in Makpandu - a washing area! Some staff helped to mobilize refugees to construct the washing area, which will hopefully make the environment near the water points better. I was very happy to see women using the washing area yesterday!
söndag 13 september 2009
Dagens visdomsord / Today's words of wisdome
En av våra anställda berättade lite om sitt liv som flykting häromdagen. Han hade flytt från Sudan till Centralafrikanska republiken och sen runt till 4 andra afrikanska länder. Nu är han tillbaka i Yambio för att jobba. Det var väldigt intressant att höra hans syn på Sudan. Särskilt en mening fastnade i mitt huvud:
”Sudan älskar krig. Och jag tycker inte om krig”.
Så enkelt. Och antagligen tyvärr ganska sant. Han var i alla fall inte särskilt positiv till utvecklingen i landet, med folkomröstningen osv. Men, vi får se...
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I spoke with a member of our staff the other day about where he was during the war here in South Sudan etc. He told me how he had moved to several different countries, but now returned home to Yambio to work. When I asked him what he thought of the situation here in South Sudan he said something which just got stuck in my mind:
”Sudan is country that loves war. And I don’t like war”.
”Sudan älskar krig. Och jag tycker inte om krig”.
Så enkelt. Och antagligen tyvärr ganska sant. Han var i alla fall inte särskilt positiv till utvecklingen i landet, med folkomröstningen osv. Men, vi får se...
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I spoke with a member of our staff the other day about where he was during the war here in South Sudan etc. He told me how he had moved to several different countries, but now returned home to Yambio to work. When I asked him what he thought of the situation here in South Sudan he said something which just got stuck in my mind:
”Sudan is country that loves war. And I don’t like war”.
En dag i Makpandu / A day in Makpandu
Barn leker nån lek jag inte fattar / Kids playing some game
Söta valpar jag såg i en hydda. Undrar vad Veterinär-Erika säger om jag skaffar en sån. Skickar du ner lusmedel och annat som kan behövas!? / Cute puppies in a hut - I wanted to take one home! We do need a guard dog, but maybe a size bigger! ;)
Bebisen sover och kvinnan väntar på utdelning av mat / Sleeping baby waiting for food distribution
Utdelning av mat / Food distribution
Otroligt söt flicka som höll på och malde något (vet inte vad). Ville gärna vara med på bild. / Incredibly sweet girl who happily posed for pictures.
Enligt Mauro var detta en pygmé från Kongo. Jag är inte så säker... / According to Mauro this is a pygmy. I am not sure?
onsdag 9 september 2009
igår / yesterday
De här bilderna har jag beställt av lokala konstnärer. Jag behöver hitta någon som kan måla massa små tavlor åt mig som jag kan använda i en hygienutbildning. Så nu ska jag bara välja vilken av dem jag vill anställa!These drawings have been made by two local artists. I asked them to provide me with sample drawings, so I can decide who to hire for drawing a large number of paintings to be used in a hygiene workshop I am planning. I think I have decided which one to hire...
Sedonya, vår städerskas lilla bebis, tar sig ett bad i vår tvättbalja / Sedonya, our cleaner's little baby, is taking a bath in our laundry bucket.
Sedonya, vår städerskas lilla bebis, tar sig ett bad i vår tvättbalja / Sedonya, our cleaner's little baby, is taking a bath in our laundry bucket.Jag HATAR stora spindlar
Häromkvällen fick jag världens chock när jag skulle borsta tänderna. Uppe i taket sitter den största spindeln jag någonsin sett. Usch. Mamma och pappas elektriska insektsjagare hade definitivt inte hjälpt på den här filuren... Så klart tog jag inte hand om spindeln själv utan hämtade vår sjuka malariapatient, som fick jaga fatt spindeln och döda den. Men, jag tog iaf en bild av den först!
The other night while I was brushing my teeth I saw the largest spider I have every seen. Disgusting... I refused to take care of it myself, so I got our malaria patient to do it for me. But at least I took a photo as evidence. If you look closely at the photo you can actually see its evil eyes staring at me! Uuuuuu!!!
måndag 7 september 2009
Idag har varit en väldigt improduktiv dag. Inget har gått som det skulle.
Imorse skull jag skriva kontrakt med min assistent, när han plötsligt säger att lönen inte duger. Nähä. Det var ju trevligt att han sa det nu och inte när jag frågade förra veckan – innan vi förberett kontrakt och jag presenterat honom för alla här på kontoret. Men, men. Så kan det vara. Nu har jag istället försökt få tag på en annan kille jag intervjuade, får hoppas det går bra istället.
I förmiddags skulle jag träffa vattenmänniskor på UNICEF, men det kommer inte förrän imorgon, så jag får försöka träffa dem då. Idag skulle jag också försöka prata med folk från vattenministeriet här i Yambio, men på grund av någon säkerthetsincident nära Yambio så blev vi ombedda av UNHCR att stanna i vårt compound. Så nu sitter jag och Domenica här och går igenom kvitton och annat skoj – sånt som annars bara brukar läggas på hög.
Igår regnade det som attans här i Yambio och i natt var det nästan riktigt kallt! Men himla skönt att inte svettas konstant – utan kunna gå i jeans och t-shirt och det känns bekvämt.
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Today was a very unproductive day. Nothing went as planned. TIA I guess.
This morning I was going to sign the contract with my assistant, when he suddenly decides that the salary is not enough for him, even though he previously said it was ok. So, bye bye to him. Very frustrating since we had already drafted the contracts and I had introduced him to everyone. So now I am doing a second interview with the guy who was my number two on the list. Hopefully he will accept so we can get started with our work.
Because of some security incident near Yambio we were told by the UN to stay in our compound. Not sure what happened since no one can confirm anything. There are plenty of rumours circulating in Yambio though and our local staff keep us updated (even if a lot of the rumours are not true I am sure). Domenica and I are using our temporary house arrest to do some admin work and go through tons of receipts. I am starting to realise the good side of working in a small team like this: you are involved in everything. So hopefully I will learn a lot – and I already have.
Imorse skull jag skriva kontrakt med min assistent, när han plötsligt säger att lönen inte duger. Nähä. Det var ju trevligt att han sa det nu och inte när jag frågade förra veckan – innan vi förberett kontrakt och jag presenterat honom för alla här på kontoret. Men, men. Så kan det vara. Nu har jag istället försökt få tag på en annan kille jag intervjuade, får hoppas det går bra istället.
I förmiddags skulle jag träffa vattenmänniskor på UNICEF, men det kommer inte förrän imorgon, så jag får försöka träffa dem då. Idag skulle jag också försöka prata med folk från vattenministeriet här i Yambio, men på grund av någon säkerthetsincident nära Yambio så blev vi ombedda av UNHCR att stanna i vårt compound. Så nu sitter jag och Domenica här och går igenom kvitton och annat skoj – sånt som annars bara brukar läggas på hög.
Igår regnade det som attans här i Yambio och i natt var det nästan riktigt kallt! Men himla skönt att inte svettas konstant – utan kunna gå i jeans och t-shirt och det känns bekvämt.
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Today was a very unproductive day. Nothing went as planned. TIA I guess.
This morning I was going to sign the contract with my assistant, when he suddenly decides that the salary is not enough for him, even though he previously said it was ok. So, bye bye to him. Very frustrating since we had already drafted the contracts and I had introduced him to everyone. So now I am doing a second interview with the guy who was my number two on the list. Hopefully he will accept so we can get started with our work.
Because of some security incident near Yambio we were told by the UN to stay in our compound. Not sure what happened since no one can confirm anything. There are plenty of rumours circulating in Yambio though and our local staff keep us updated (even if a lot of the rumours are not true I am sure). Domenica and I are using our temporary house arrest to do some admin work and go through tons of receipts. I am starting to realise the good side of working in a small team like this: you are involved in everything. So hopefully I will learn a lot – and I already have.
söndag 6 september 2009
Finally, after 3 days, I have internet access!
My first week in Yambio has been an interesting one: lots of work, hiring an assistant, being sick - and an attack near Yambio last night, which made people flee from surrounding areas into the town. We had 15 extra people in our compound over night, the guard's extended family which he brought there for extra safety since we have a fenced compund.
Me and Mauro were out at a restaurant last night and were just about to order when someone told us there were rumors about an attack on a village a couple of km from Yambio. And then we saw people walking in to Yambio with their belongings on their heads, kids in their arms etc. Very unreal. And I cannot get over how horrible it must be for people to live their lives like this, never being able to relax and feel safe in your own home.
I feel safe here in Yambio though - we have a good house, compound and neighbours, so I don't worry.
Yesterday we finalised our new outdoor kitchen. It turned out pretty good! And today we cooked in it for the first time. Now I am just hoping to get some oats sent to me from Juba and everything will be great! :)
My first week in Yambio has been an interesting one: lots of work, hiring an assistant, being sick - and an attack near Yambio last night, which made people flee from surrounding areas into the town. We had 15 extra people in our compound over night, the guard's extended family which he brought there for extra safety since we have a fenced compund.
Me and Mauro were out at a restaurant last night and were just about to order when someone told us there were rumors about an attack on a village a couple of km from Yambio. And then we saw people walking in to Yambio with their belongings on their heads, kids in their arms etc. Very unreal. And I cannot get over how horrible it must be for people to live their lives like this, never being able to relax and feel safe in your own home.
I feel safe here in Yambio though - we have a good house, compound and neighbours, so I don't worry.
Yesterday we finalised our new outdoor kitchen. It turned out pretty good! And today we cooked in it for the first time. Now I am just hoping to get some oats sent to me from Juba and everything will be great! :)
Today it was raining like crazy, our compound was almost flooded 
Our new outdoor kitchen
The gate on the right belongs to our compund, which is literally surrounded by small huts
The road leading to our compound
In Yambio, very near our compound - where the road from our compound meets the nearest "big" road
My desk in our office - D's is on the right
In Makpandu, new arrivals registration in the white building in the backonsdag 2 september 2009
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