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The View From There
Saturday, October 11th, 2008[This week's Communications column for the Vanuatu Independent.]
I spent a couple of weeks last month in Timor-Leste, the world’s youngest nation. I’d gone to lend a hand to civil society there, to apply a few of the lessons learned in Vanuatu to the communications needs of this nascent nation.
The lessons learned were mostly mine.
Five years [...]
Housework
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Ever since I arrived in Vanuatu almost four years ago, I’ve woken every morning to the rhythmic shushing of the scrub brush as the women in the neighbourhood do the morning wash. It’s often the last thing I hear before sundown as well.
Anyone who’s ever washed their clothes by hand knows just how arduous the [...]