Katie Chalcraft has been awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship and is currently travelling in Malawi and South Africa, exploring the use of arts in programmes working with people living with HIV. This blog is the third in a series of journal entries from Katie as she travels. DAY 2: Temwa Forum Theatre On my second […]
Katie Chalcraft has been awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship and is currently travelling in Malawi and South Africa, exploring the use of arts in programmes working with people living with HIV. This blog is the second in a series of journal entries from Katie as she travels. Batteries Methodology Training at Temwa Upon waking […]
Katie Chalcraft has been awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship and is currently travelling in Malawi and South Africa, exploring the use of arts in programmes working with people living with HIV. This blog is one of a series of journal entries from Katie as she travels. To Temwa… It was as if we were […]
It is difficult to grasp just how much we in the developed world take our roads for granted. Growing up in rural Australia, endless stretches of blacktop shimmering in the heat haze were an unquestioned necessity. This is not the case in South Sudan. Roughly the size of France, it has a total of around […]
Last week South Sudan’s largest state of Jonglei was again wracked by violence. On 18 August, thousands of young men from the Murle tribe, armed with assault rifles, launched an attack on communities from the neighbouring Lou Nuer tribe, deep in the remote northern part of the state. The men first struck the village of […]
‘Don’t be fooled by Juba, Hamish. The real South Sudan lies outside… you’ll see.’ In my first week, virtually everyone I met offered me this advice, and it sparked my interest in life beyond the capital. Just days later I was in the north of the country, enduring a bone-jarring journey on the recently refurbished […]
I stepped from the aeroplane into a thick haze of humidity. Its warmth enveloped me in greeting, rich with the scent of the wet season. Heavy, grey clouds lounged low in the sky, soon to deluge the city of Juba with its daily downpour. ‘Welcome to our new country!’ beamed the customs officer, reaching over […]
What led you to become a part of Wasafiri?Four reasons led me to joining Wasafiri: firstly, I had a passion and I found people with a kindred spirit who shared the same passion. The passion was about generating action to help people living in poverty to get dignified lifestyles.
The way in which aid is delivered is critical to its impact on reducing poverty and increasing poor people’s access to services. Aid is more effective when the development of policies, plans and their implementation, and budgets are led by the partner country not the donor. This strengthens ownership, the first principle of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.
2009 was a bad year for natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific. Cyclones in Burma and the Phillipines, floods in Vietnam and volcanic eruptions in Indonesia stretched the capacity and willingness of neighbouring nations to come to the aid of millions affected. Such regional goodwill was further tested by outbreaks of conflict in Papua New-Guinea, the […]
