I came late to the aid business. While most field workers start in their 20s, I was in my 40s when I joined an international NGO that offered long term care to orphans and vulnerable children.

The job took me around East Africa, often to remote areas, sometimes to conflict zones,…

 (Republished, with permission, from a blog by SoulinAfrica)

On 11 September 2001 I was supposed to be in Ethiopa – my first assignment in that country for the NGO I was working for.  But African visas put paid to that.  An Ethiopian visa took up a full page and with half…

I have always thought that ‘field’ is a strange word to describe where I sometimes work. As a communications worker for the East African branch of an international NGO my work was both office and ‘field’-based. In other words, to get the information I needed for donors, supporters and the…