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Some impressions from Chad |
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geschreven door Akke Boere
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maandag 08 augustus 2005 |
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Hadjer Hadid, 22nd June 2005
Eastern Chad, October 2004- June2005 
Women sitting under a tree, selling little bags of peanuts or chillis, men at the 'mosque'; a tree with some fencing, kids with dirty faces and clothes running around, bikes beautifully decorated with plastic flowers ploughing through the sand, women taking care of their 'houses' sweeping the sand, a typical picture of African village life except for the fact that the houses aren't really houses.. they are tents and there are many, many tents. The letters 'UNHCR' you can still vaguely see on a now very brown and dusty - but once white- tent. From straw little walls have been created to create some privacy around the tent, UNHCR-sheeting creates sometimes another wall or a shed against the burning sun.
This is what you find driving through Eastern Chad on 12 occasions, and 3 in the region that I just spent 8 months. The Bredjing camp houses 30.000 people in the desert on a small area, in Treguine just 5 km's away another 15.000 people and Farchana houses 20.000 Darfurian refugees. Most are from the Massalit tribe, although in some camps you can find some Zaghawa or other tribes. And this is only a small part of the people that had to flee Sudan, because of the war raging through the region.
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geschreven door Akke Boere
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maandag 08 augustus 2005 |
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Bukavu, May 6, 2004 
Dear all!
It has been a long time and a lot of emails have been left unanswered. Thank
you though for keeping in touch, it is great to hear news and much needed!
Here things are all right. Six months now in Eastern DRC. Crazy times; from
shootings down the street because of, lets say, ‘post-war conflict’, to 4
times malaria tropica, difficult team dynamics, to being robbed in Botswana
and seeing my thirties... But am doing fine. For those interested.. a few
stories to share!
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Life in the Village of Shingkhar-experiences in Bhutan 2001 |
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geschreven door Akke Boere
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maandag 08 augustus 2005 |
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Greetings from Bhutan once more. I hope this letter finds everybody healthy and fine. I am doing very good. Have just returned from an incredible 2 months of fieldwork in Shingkhar, a very remote village in the Zhemgang district. My field work was on social relations in a Bhutanese village. Walking (sometimes struggling…) back for 3 days through the Himalayas I thought a lot about how I could share some of these experiences. I will tell about the life I lived through some extracts of my journal and other stories. I hope I can give you some idea of what life is like in a Bhutanese village. It really was a huge adventure and an absolute fantastic experience. I have lived the most different life that I could have ever imagined.
Shingkhar is a very scattered village on a mountain slope, 3 days walk from the roadpoint. It consists of 46 households (hh), some are up to 2 hours away from the ‘main village’. People live from self-sufficient farming, mostly maize and paddyfields. Though the hh’s are scattered, there is a lot of contact between the different household groups through a system referred to by the local government staff as the ‘local internet’. This local internet goes a lot faster, it seems to me, then the ‘real internet’ so there are pretty much no secrets in Shingkhar. It is for gossip but also to inform each other on the village events, like meetings, puja’s, births and deaths and whatever else. But first, how did we get to Shingkhar? We left on Wednesday May 16th, Jigme my interpreter and I and our porters. I was very excited though the 3 days walk were quite a challenge to start of with. |
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