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  shitty in pink, part two: lots of refugee ladies, no ladies’ rooms

  Posted on August 26, 2012 by nikki in aid work, odds and sods.

  Easy enough for me to tell my latrine sob story, but let me give an even stronger piece of advice: really, really try to avoid being a refugee in a newly created camp that only has trench latrines. As an aid worker I’m supposed to encourage all refugees to use only the designated camp latrines. […]

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  love triangle in south sudan

  Posted on August 6, 2012 by nikki in aid work, unexpected adventures.

  Both of my translators were an hour late for my morning meeting with the 40 outreach workers. When Timoty and Anur  arrived – after I’d been desperately (and unsuccessfully) pantomiming a short message about which teams needed to fill out new HR forms for the past 45 minutes – I asked them where they had […]

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