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Hello and a hearty welcome to our blog! We are Grant and Chantelle – recently married and honeymooning in Africa with MSF before “settling down” and getting “real jobs” back home in Edmonton, Canada. Grant is a farm kid turned chemical engineer turned humanitarian worker, with 4 MSF missions under his belt; Chantelle is a ballerina turned environmental engineer turned humanitarian worker, with one MSF mission completed and previous development work experience. Our parents still have no idea how those transformations came to be!
Along the way our paths merged and we now find ourselves gratefully sharing the only room with functioning AC in the expat house in N’Djamena, CHAD, before heading out to our posts in the field. We are here on 9-month contracts with MSF. Grant will be the coordinator of a rapidly expanding secondary health care project in the town of Am Timan. Ramping up the laboratory, developing tuberculosis and HIV programs, and supporting a network of health centres are among a smorgasbord of activities on his plate in the coming months. Chantelle is the flying watsan and is responsible for overseeing the water and sanitation activities for the 5 different projects here in Chad. We hope that writing this blog will allow us to stay in touch with friends and family, reflect more deeply on all we see and do here, and ultimately, help raise awareness about MSF’s work in forgotten corners of the world. Incha’Allah!
