My assignment in Namibia is going on, it’s been now a bit more than four weeks and the project has been evolving a lot, satisfying changes, it’s such a world and such a task to work in the HIV/AIDS world and to realize how people try to solve this problem. The Wellness Center in Walvis Bay will be launched on the first of December, and still a lot to achieve but motivation is there and will be there thanks to people’s help and support as well as various other impressive initiatives around AIDS prevention.

Well I have been busy putting together the massive of video's I took while I was in Africa for North Star Foundation. Click on the YouTube logo's to see the video's.

Well it's been a long time in coming but the Walvis Bay Wellness Centre will have its official opening on the 1st of December 2008.

I arrived in Namibia a week ago and it’s been quite hectic to start up on the assignment. After a quiet and sightseeing week-end, I met a lot of key people who will help us out to raise funds locally. So many people are very enthusiastic about the project which really motivates me to do my best and get the wellness center running properly!

Dit weekend krijgt het Purchase for Progress project, waar ik tijdens het komende half jaar aan zal gaan werken, een gezicht. We gaan de bush in, op zoek naar de kleine boer. Zij zijn degenen die WFP probeert te helpen door meer direct van hun te kopen.

I’ve travelled to Nairobi on 04SEP08, after 2 days briefing in the WFP Aviation HQ in Rome to continue with a project previously started by TNT CS specialists.

During the last two days, I’ve faced quite a learning experience… my first actual contact with the field took place in Zimbabwe where North Star Foundation is planning to set up a wellness center at the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe, in Beitbridge. We went up there to check out some spots where the center could potentially be established. It sounded like an easy task which ended up being a very long and shocking process…

This weekend the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) Race was held in Lusaka, Zambia. As starry-eyed idealists me and my intern buddy veron are present. We signed up for the ‘health walk’. But the actual race is about the MDG-run. Yesterday night late the idea of participating in a maize-suit to represent WFP was born. Veron would make the suit, I would run in it.

Today is my first day in Johannesburg (SA), where I'm going to be in transit until the end of this week before flying to my final destination being Namibia. I will be working from Windhoek and Walvis Bay during the next two months for North Star Foundation, initiative providing HIV/AIDS prevention education programme through roadside wellness centers all over southern and eastern Africa.