Christina Williams Blog - Recent Posts
20 February 2009
The girls are really enjoying the project. During the week it came to my attention that the girls have no computer access whatsoever. So my laptop is coming in really practical. I have started to demonstrate how to upload images and change image appearance in Photoshop. When we have some quiet ...
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14 February 2009
Mid-evaluation camp and the arrival of nine new, pale fresh-faced volunteers! We spent a week on the out skirts of Maputo, with the NGO AJUDE, for the evaluation, mid-evaluation and arrival of new volunteers. There were many sad goodbyes with the departure of my two closest friends, but some warm welcomes ...
Read "A New Photography Project with the Orphans!" >
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16 December 2008
Tofo is a small village approximately six hours drive from Maputo. Well, that’s if you don’t rely on chappa and people actually being on time. So firstly, we were travelling on a Sunday which was definitely not a good idea. We decided to leave from Maputo at 2pm arriving at the ...
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12 December 2008
Ten minutes walk from the orphanage where I work, is a Denmark funded charity called Ibis. This charity is focused on educational development of underprivileged children. They have been running for six years, are well funded and it was really interesting to see the diversity within the charity sector. There was ...
Read "Ibis' Seasonal Closure Party" >
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07 December 2008
In the two years I worked in the studio in Cardiff I didn’t take one day off sick. Never one for headaches, infections or bugs, I would always just work through, but out here things are totally different. The first month I suffered with serious exhaustion. I think it was a ...
Read "The African Climate Takes its Tole on Christina" >
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20 October 2008
Hulene, Maputo I pass this place everyday on my route to work, and it is about one hour from my house by chappa--of course! The area is called Hulene, and it is where a massive land-fill borders with people’s houses. I drive past it in the mornings about half past seven, ...
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01 October 2008
So, it’s been two months of madness, both good times and bad. I have been working in Laulane in Maputo for 7 weeks now, with the kids ages 0 to 4. I love the kids so much; so clever and so happy. The orphanage houses 18 children all together, and there ...
Read "Still Alive!!" >
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30 August 2008
Love every minute.The kids have been working me hard, but I'm finding it really difficult to control the little ones, due to my lack of Portuguese. They are only small but they make me exhausted. At the moment I’m working from 8 till 12:30, as they have food at 12 and ...
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23 August 2008
My legs are killing me...got attacked by a bug ! 10 different bites that have swollen up like a ballon! Every time I stand up the blood rushes to them and feels like my legs might fall off… ouch… My new gran put some form of liquid on them to make ...
Read "Starting Work" >
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09 August 2008
We arrived in Mozambique about 10am on Saturday the 2nd. It was 33 degrees the day we arrived and this is winter - it will be painful in November when summer hits. The malaria tabs make your skin sensitive to the sun although I haven’t really noticed any problems with it ...
Read "One Week into the Programme" >
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