Today the sky is turquoise blue with smiling white clouds floating around but all during last night it had been raining. I’m accompanying Georgina one of our MSF nurses.
“Coléra, coléra!!” shout little Zimbabwean kids running after our MSF minivan as it splashes through sewage soaked muddy roads in the high density Harare township of Dzivaresekwa (or Dziva or just
01 May 2008 – Living in Palestine and working with the local people, has urged me to think several times about my relationship with the material aspect of things, with the idea of belongings.
15 March 2008 - The last period was tense. What was happening in Gaza (125 dead people), what happened in Jerusalem (8 people died) affect obviously all the Palestinian Territories and all Israel.
14 February 2008 – Half of my patients are children having faced a traumatic event, e.g. an incursion, and the other half are usually the mothers and close relatives of those arrested.
30 January 2008 – Yesterday, we were wishing with the children I work with that it would snow in Hebron. There were some signs but when I woke up today I could not believe my eyes.
15 January 2008 – I've been to Palestine for a month now. Winter has come for good. Temperature falls below zero during the night. During the day I visit my patients at their homes.
03 January 2008 – Coming to Palestine to work with MSF as a psychologist was a desire I had for a long time. The last 3 weeks this has become a reality for me.