Category: Development work
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Toilette haben oder nicht
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Ich bin Gestern Abend von Hui Kau Laam zurückgekommen. Unsere Toilette, die wir vor zwei Jahren gebaut haben ist am zerfallen. Holz hällt nicht ewig! Sie wird auch von sehr vielen Dorfbewohnern benutzt und ist einfach zu klein um auch noch zu duschen und die Wäsche zu machen.Wir haben nun…
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The end of poverty
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Is it an unreachable dream? To end poverty? Or better say extreme poverty as Jeffrey D. Sachs writes in his book “The end of poverty”. I started reading it some weeks ago and try to fight my way through pages of economic change and explanations about the world with its…
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Broken pipe
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Sometimes when I leave the "civilization" as we know it, it can feel like you are in the middle of nowhere. Here we were working on a broken pipe in the Hui Kau Laam valley. The undergrowth of the jungle is burned down. Ashes and dust hangs in the air.…
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Into the mountains
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Tomorrow morning I will be going to the mountains again. I will take a minivan shuttle. I left my truck with a team last week. They have been up there for a week building water-tanks. So I will be gone for three days again. The tanks are nearly finished. We…
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On the roof
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It has been a long time since I wrote last. A combination of writers block, laziness, a vacation and to much work. Blogging is not on my top priority right now. Enough excuses….We had to move our office and two weeks later our outreach center. I am not a stranger…
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Difficulties in development work
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I have been on a trip to Hui Kau Laam and spent three in Hui Kau Laam. A family from Switzerland came along and we had a good time. On this trip again I was aware how difficult our work is and the problems we incounter.It is extremly difficult to…
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Wasserleitung
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Wasser ist Leben. Ich habe die Veränderung in den Leben der Menschen mit eigenen Augen gesehen und die Freude wenn das kostbare Nass bis in das Dorf fliesst und nicht mehr von weither geschleppt werden muss. Sauberes Wasser ist für uns im Westen meist eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Ich treffe hier immer…