Robert van Bemmelen

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Back home after 6 months in Tanzania

05 April 2010
Robert van Bemmelen

Its amazing how fast time went by during the last 6 months. From arriving in an African country that was totally new to me, to leaving a city that has been my temporary home and where I worked and lived.

Precious Food

01 March 2010
Robert van Bemmelen

Its 6 o’clock in the morning when my alarm goes off in Kigoma, western Tanzania, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Today I’m leaving for Kasulu, the hub for several UN agencies that are working in the refugee camps that are located along the Burundi border.

An impression: WFP logistics in Tanzania - port operations

07 January 2010
Robert van Bemmelen

From the pictures I made during the discharge of one of the ships with a USAID shipment here in the Dar es Salaam port, I compiled a short video which gives an impression of what we do here.

It can be found on Youtube, under the following URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOYP_WWfBvQ

Enjoy.

 

 

Food For Work around Dodoma

06 January 2010
Robert van Bemmelen

The landscape around Dodoma during these months is an unbelievable barren one. The colors brown, red and grey have taken over during the dry season, leaving nothing else then dry scrub wood and dust as far as the eye can see. The landscape sleeps, waiting for the rain that’s long to come and which is already for weeks said to be on its way.In the past years, the rains have been delayed time after time, extending the period of draught during which it is hardly possible to grow crops the traditional way.

Logistics in Dodoma

16 November 2009
Robert van Bemmelen

As mentioned in my last blog entry, I spent the last couple of weeks in Tanzania’s capital city Dodoma, some 500 km’s west of Dar es Salaam. The first days, we had a meeting with all logistics people from the different sub offices who gathered in Dodoma, discussing challenges faced at each location, as well sharing experiences. Again, the accountability was an important topic in the meeting, emphasizing the need for clear and clean commodities management.

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