VSO Sri Lanka 2013

As I have given up on the idea of getting other volunteer company I took myself off to the National…

The above is a picture of the Kandalama Hotel, Dambulla  from the website www.heritancehotels.com/kandalama/geoffrey-bawa.html I went to find Geoffrey Bawa’s…

The image comes from the Barefoot website: www.Barefootceylon.com/cafe I did eventually meet up with five volunteers yesterday in a famous…

‘The target audience for the plan is senior government ministers who make decisions about where and how international aid is…

One of the many settlements abandoned post tsunami On Sunday night I experienced my first storm here. I woke about…

Yesterday, while I was having a shower and noticing that the water was not draining away very quickly a frog…

  My mind-set is all in planning mode. I have just written to the children talking through my options and…

I enjoyed my week-end. Arugam Bay had big crashing surfing waves so you could lie in bed and hear the…

Today it was environment (the value of mangrove swamps) and a visit to a shrimp hatchery (excellent example of public-private…

Monday I went to Ampara with Oxfam GB. This was to see if they were implementing the plan John had…

 The picture is from faculty.ucc.edu I have just had to compose a long piece to my Sri Lankan VSO boss….

  It was really difficult last week as there is a Sri Lankan consultancy group that have been asked by…