If you are reading this on Christmas day, Happy Christmas!  Thank you for being such a dedicated reader of my…

I wanted to say a bit about the VSO people here. The finance and support officer has the temperament of…

After my 5 year contract with The Children’s Society came to an end I went to work at Tower Hamlets…

The first day I was just thrown in to meetings, starting at Oxfam, then meeting the GA (like the Chief…

Inde am Hazel. Mi goddo England. My name is Hazel. I am from England. This week I had my first…

One of the most inspiring places to me is the church I go to – Luton Christian Fellowship, or LCF…

On Wednesday I travelled over 10 hours to get to Batticaloa. The journey was the journey – very long –…

  Maroua is the capital of the Far North region. It is built on two sides of a river bed…

I am a big reader of self-help books – more on that another time. I am also inspired by the…

I haven’t had space to tell you about something I saw in Unawatuna. I was sat on a sun bed…

Yesterday I got bitten a lot. I don’t know if this was because it rained. The 6 of us who…

Stray dogs are a big issue in Sri Lanka although local people don’t generally bother about them. Of course I…