Sierra Leone
After spending time in Sierra Leone, Africa working for a UK based Charity Aquabox (Aquabox.org) we helped distribute their Humanitarian Aid to several deserved communities, hospitals, disabled groups and schools in both Freetown and Kenema. Our goal was to assess and evaluate the ‘Aquabox’ and establish its fitness for purpose in this post conflict country, prepare a report and present our findings to the trustees of Aquabox.
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Lebanon
Additionally, an opportunity arose to visit Palestinian refugee camps in north Lebanon, who had also been recipients of the Aquabox and Humanitarian Aid. Working out of Beirut this was an opportunity for Aquabox to develop associations with Muslim Aid (Muslim aid.org), who were our hosts during the visit. Muslim Aid had begun creating many development opportunities in the district to support the refugees. Our focus on this visit was the ‘Nahr al-Bared’ camp that had recently been destroyed where the refugees needed a method to purify the water. We plan to use the information gained from working with the many groups in all three countries and draw upon the strengths and lessons to attempt to deliver sustainable methods of improving the lives of people and seek to mitigate and prevent human suffering. According to the United Nations Governance, Advocacy and Leadership for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (GoAL WaSH) country sector assessments in 2009 for Sierra Leone, " each day, an average of 5,000 children die due to preventable water and sanitation related diseases". Feel free to brouse our photos.
Sicily
Founded in the 8th century BC the city of Palermo is arguably one of the cities of the world that has been fought over more times than many others, it has been sacked and suffered battles for ownership for much of its history, by a myriad of societies, from Muslims, Romans, The Spanish and Normans and Byzantine’s. For the citizens of Palermo, the fight against organised crime, injustice, racketeering and the mafia continues.
Since World War II the Mafia have kept a tight grip on the citizens of Palermo, and for all this time the reactions to the mafia have become common place, part of their society. So how then do we encourage such a society to go against what it has always done? How do we feel about change? If you were approached and it was suggested that that the way you are living your life was outdated, inadequate, unnecessary or wrong? Would we all embrace a new concept and readily change or might we cling onto our history? It is not so easy to simply expect a society to forget all that they were used to, to simply adopt a new concept and model for life as if everything that had gone before will simply be rubbed out, like clearing a blackboard after the lesson is finished. How easy is it for us to accept change in order to evolve?
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