“I raised a PO for our DSA for the FT of this week to one of our IP’s, but the CD and the DCD are out so they cannot sign the PO”. Not too long ago this was just as much like ‘abracadabra’ to me as it is to most of you readers now, but after three and a half months as an intern within the World Food Programme I kind of get the hang in it. My 6 months internship being already halfway, I feel the urge to reflect on the three months that have passed. The workload is low this week due to the holidays, so enough time available for this reflective update.

The Walvis Bay Wellness Centre has officially been opened on World AIDS day 2008! Now sitting at Johannesburg airport, I am going back to Amsterdam today; I cannot believe how fast time went in the last few weeks… I can now look backwards, without any regrets, being very sad though, Namibia is a wonderful country! So many things have happened, the clinic has been successfully launched and so many other activities have taken place…

After the inauguration of the kitchen Njoren we completed our mission with Sara Louba. Toutes these two schools now have their kitchen brand neuf.

1600 km above me there are tens of thousand of people on the run from the bloodshed in North Kivu. WFP Zambia where I am doing an internship with TNT’s global experience programme, is trying to feed its northern neighbour. The situation is dire, we have to act now. The problem is availability of food in the region.

We have visited the Kerr Layen's school in the region 5 of our mission of monitoring. I was marked but at the same time I was impressed.

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.