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Busy busy Saturday

Posted in February 16th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in life as a volunteer, things you'd never do in Sweden

Today was probably the busiest weekend day we’ve had so far!

First of all, an entrepreneur had come with a team to move the horse fence, so that Arwen will finally have a place of her own and be able to fight the dog over his rice or tear down my plants whenever she suffers from […]

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Things Fall Apart

Posted in February 14th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in life as a volunteer, things you'd never do in Sweden

Our house as almost as old as I am, and as with all things, they eventually fall apart. What a shame though that both our sinks (and that would be our only sinks, except for the one in the kitchen) decided to break down at the same time! No big surprise though, when we took […]

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Niger in the news - a sterotypical portrait

Posted in June 9th, 2007
by Esther Garvi in Favourite posts, in the media, things you want to know about Niger, things you'd never do in Sweden, values

There used to be a time when Niger was unknown to the outside world and people hardly knew what continent I was talking about. As a teenager, I quickly learned to present my country as “Niger-south-of-Algeria-north-of-Nigeria” just to make people understand that there was in fact something else than a void in the midst of […]

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Cash handouts are not helping!

Posted in May 22nd, 2007
by Esther Garvi in Favourite posts, aid politics, things you'd never do in Sweden

 
Copyright Eden Foundation 2005
I just read a post today about a journalist in Uganda who was coerced into paying a woman she had interviewed for an article although she felt it went against journalistic work ethics. At first she was reluctant, but her Ugandan colleague seemed to have valid point: “”You’re going to get […]

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