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Life's Simple Pleasures
It rained last night and dawn brought in another bright and sunny day. There were white puffy clouds over the ocean but no signs of dark...
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Aug 10, 2018
The Children
This morning we drove through the Kutupalong Camp so the new volunteers could have a look at the camp to see where the refugees are...
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Aug 8, 2018
Winding Through the camps
Another bright and sunny day and it was actually starting to be a scorcher. Patches of blue sky certainly were not harbinger of rain. So...
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Aug 7, 2018
Visiting Jamtoli Camp
Dawn brought in a bright and sunny day but where I stayed, sunlight could not penetrate. The walls of the buildings were within a foot of...
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Aug 4, 2018
Settling In
It rained during the night and the dirt roads to the main tarmac road turned into mud puddles. Rain clouds gathered ominously in the...
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Aug 3, 2018
Back to Cox’s Bazar
This morning I rose early to run on the beach. There were people playing soccer, a few runners and many walkers but the hazy sky hid the...
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Jan 18, 2018
PTSD and Fate Hanging in the Balance
This was my last day at the camp! It was clearer this morning. In the corridor of the store-front leading to the beach in my run this...
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Jan 17, 2018
Sun Set over the Kutupalong Camp
I thought yesterday was my last time to the Obat clinic at Kutupalong Camp but at the last minute it seemed the three UK doctors decided...
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Jan 16, 2018
Woman Headed Households
It took us an hour and a half to get to Obat, riding in a van (an improvement over the bouncing Tom Tom) and walking through the...
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Jan 15, 2018
The Hard Realities: Witness to Atrocities
Today was very foggy, I could only see between 30 to 50 feet in front of me. I went running around 6:30 am, the air was moist and felt...
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Jan 14, 2018
Another Day at the Hope Clinic
At the clinic, I ran into Bonnie, a familiar face, the mid-wife who was with me in South Sudan, she was volunteering with Hope Foundation...
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Jan 13, 2018
A Red Bundle
Most of last week’ volunteers stayed a week and left, three male doctors from UK joined us. Right around late morning at the Hope Clinic,...
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Jan 11, 2018
The Dispossessed
I went back to Hope Clinic working with my translator Russel, saw 27 patients mainly aches and pains, respiratory infections and...
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Jan 10, 2018
A Bleak Future
I was dropped off Obat alone by the roadside to the Obat guest house even as the medical coordinator had not been able to get in touch...
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Jan 9, 2018
At the Obat Clinic
Four of us were dropped off at an intersection and five of us including a worker from Obat, another NGO squeezed into a Tom Tom to travel...
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Jan 7, 2018
Balukhali Camp
There is a beach close by the hotel we are staying and after a few days of no exercise, I found my way there and ran early in the morning...
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Jan 6, 2018
The Nightmares Began
It took us an hour and a half to get to Balukhali Camp. On the way we passed paddy fields, harvested long ago with cows and goats grazing...
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