A lot of our travelling has been on untarmaced rough roads, as our partners are working with really rural communities, those who can’t be reached by others.
This is a lot to do with the church structure here, there is a parish and Deanery structure here, as there is in England and Wales - and this means [...]
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June 22, 2009
Zimbabwe: Infected by hope
June 21, 2009
Zimbabwe: One box of gloves, miles away
Today we drove 100km to Nyanga, where the diocesan team took us to the district hospital to meet the doctor there.
This is the main hospital for about 100km, and is where all serious cases would be referred, yet there is only one medical doctor in the whole place.
He was with a patient, so we left [...]
June 20, 2009
Zimbabwe: Lot more than porridge in the pot
Two women stood over their cauldrons of steaming maize porridge, stirring it with a long knobby stick. We had arrived at the Dhirihori primary school in Marondera, some 114km outside of the capital city Harare.
The school’s faded white-washed buildings stood dilapidated and in urgent need of repair. The place looked deserted.
Then from nowhere, like a [...]
June 18, 2009
Bangladesh: Difficult choices
I’m on a boat sailing close to the shore of the river Poshur. It is early in the evening after a long day.
I don’t know whether to say Bangladesh is beautiful or Bangladesh is hard because both are true.
People wade the shores pulling large triangular nets behind them catching fingerlings, small fish. It is a [...]
June 15, 2009
Bangladesh: The journey begins
We left London at midday and arrived at breakfast, our night seeming to have been skipped, along with our sleep.
As a group of CAFOD staff, we were travelling to visit projects in Bangladesh, with the aim of sharing their stories with parishes, schools and supporters in England and Wales.
The short 12 km ride to our host, [...]
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