sumiko_blogging_from_sudan

i funk away on the laundry...

this must have been a particularly stupid individual. how else could a creature like that end up like this?

we were stopping for lunch when we heard the "sweeeeeeeeeeeeee" sound of escaping air from the left back tyre of the car. the spare was installed. not much later while in the next village meeting, the driver announces that now the right back tyre has gone flat. he calls in our colleagues who are working at another village some 15km away. we all make it to base safely in the evening.

the next morning both punctured tyres are repaired:



in the late afternoon, however, while happily heading back to Kadugli, a huge "BANG". the car fills with dust, ears ring, eyes water. one of the "repaired" tyres which were in the back of the car burst. properly. never seen anything like it:

meanwhile the food situation has improved: i've hired staff that acutally cares what it eats... but sometimes it still happens that we get this for lunch:



dinner in the field is comparatively sumptuous. because of the immediate availability to poultry albeit of the Kate Moss sort we do get animal protein into our diets:



isn't this beautiful?! this is sorghum, the staple food of the region. women arrange the sorghum panicles in this aesthetically pleasing way - just to transport it to threashing...



we all wash it down with plenty of water. i prefer the bottled version, however, seeing what colour the local H2O usually has.



no wonder bearing in mind that this is probably the standard water hole. seems like a good idea that the project will establish proper water points?!

it's been some time. well, i don't have internet connection at work - i depend on the generosity of the international taxpayer and those who represent him/her here in Kadugli: a UN agency does open its doors to NGO staff like me and lets me use the network... but i guess i have elaborated on this topic before and it bores me.

anyway, the team's been busy going places and organizing the target villages of our project. now, that merits extra explanation and introduction - stay tuned and you'll find the details of the project here at some point. this information's been somewhat overdue but ... whatever.

so here we go... places where there's no road. somewhat disconcerting when taking into account that that week a truck rode over an anti-tank mine maybe 3km from where we were romping through the bush. fortunately, nothing happened - neither to the truck passengers nor to us.