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By Catherine Macnab
April 28, 2010
On Friday I head north to Cabo Delgado, the northern coastal province of Mozambique. My few days of acclimatizing to the sounds of Portuguese in Maputo will be tested when discussions have to be translated three-ways into the local language.
After a night in Pemba, the provincial capital, I’ll travel overland 500 [...]

By Sean Maddox
March 26, 2010
Sierra Leone is a unique country with many experiences and challenges that most could not imagine. The week has witnessed a great deal of learning; mainly by me. I spent so much time listening to professionals tell me about their work, the state of education in the country, challenges and [...]

By Dr. David Klooster
March 26, 2010
I’m afraid my contributions to this Sierra Leone blog are all introductions and conclusions and nothing in between. I’m on my way back to North America after a week in Freetown, a whirlwind week, so here are a few reflections on what I saw and heard and learned.
I guess I’m [...]

By David Klooster
March 23, 2010
(carrying home the firewood)
I’m here in Freetown with Sean Maddox, at the end of our second day of trying to build a foundation for Reading Sierra Leone. It’s my first time out with CODE, though Sean and I have been trading many stories since we met in London at the boarding [...]

By Sean Maddox in Sierra Leone
March 23, 2010
The power just went out again and I lost my first attempt to reflect on my arrival in Sierra Leone. Oddly enough the computer didn’t recover the draft from the power surge. But perhaps oddity and misconceptions should be my focus with this entry.
Upon arrival Sunday evening I [...]

By Ingrid Ermanovics,
Feb 6, 2010
I spent the morning “liming” (that’s ‘Guyanese’ for hanging out) but spent the afternoon in the next region to the west across the massive Demerara River.  The General Manager of the Guyana Book Foundation (GBF), Leila Jagdeo, graciously gave up her Sunday afternoon to take me out of Georgetown and into [...]

By: Kathy Stinson
February 2, 2010
I’m sitting on the fourth floor balcony of the Cape Hotel in Monrovia in shorts and t-shirt listening to a mixture of surf and hotel generators, and the occasional honking of a motorcycle horn. It’s just after nine o’clock at night. African music has been added to the surf/generator mix [...]

By: Ingrid Ermanovics -CODE Program Manager
Tuesday Feb 1-4, 2010
I arrived bleary eyed – having enjoyed my flight over the rain forest and massive rivers of the Guyanese hinterland -  in my crumpled black pants, shirt and sweater to a wall of heat and humidity, splashes of flowers and wonderful fragrances — and sunshine!  So many [...]

We just finished day 2 and we are winding down on the balcony.  Kathy has a lot of writing to review.
I will explain a couple of challenges and start a discussion about the solution. I guess I have already come up with a solution for the first challenge.
Challenge 1:
We went art-supply shopping after the workshop [...]

 
By: Sean Maddox - CODE Director of Development
November 27th; Dialogue with Teachers, Parents and Students at Schools in Ibeno
Today we headed to the schools to present our project to the teachers, students and community members and to find out more about the environment where the schools were based.  Our itinerary for the day was packed; [...]