My values and perspective on life are being challenged everyday. After seven years in Canada, I now live in Burkina Faso. In my blog I try to give you a sense of how my perceptions are changing, with the hope that it will open horizons and debates. I hope you enjoy it. Lessons learned on killing a tarantula. As I was lifting .

A bit on my work in resettled communities. When I arrived in Cambodia just over a month ago, one of the first things I set about doing was selecting study sites. When I began doing research into the peri-urban areas around Phnom Penh a number of months back, my interest was piqued by the extensive resettlement programs that the government has been undertaking. In the end, I chose two such resettled communities as the basis for my study. One of my study communities was evicted e.

Monday, March 15, 2010. A woman weeds her onion farm.

Photo pas très pourri de photos. Visite à Gorom-Gorom, une petite ville au nord du Sahel. on se rapproche du désert! En janvier, il fait très froid dans le desert au petit matin. Je pose fièrement avec un gros poisson.

Mapalo Chilufya Lwando - EWB Long Term Overseas Volunteer. Thursday, January 8, 2009. Ah, by now you are used. I am very close to reaching my goal, you can help for the final push! Meaning of course that I must have gotten used to life in Zambia after so long. She asked where in Zambia I had been living, and I told her. It was both a statement and a question. Speaking Zambian languages will never get old.

I am a recent Engineering graduate from the University of British Columbia. I was born and raised in Vancouver, but now live in Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana. I am working for Engineers Without Borders Canada in partnership with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Together we are developing an extension program that will help farmers bring their farming from a subsistence level to a fully functioning business. One of the biggest .