Oxfam in the West End

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Simon is here for a couple of weeks.


As you all know - Simon has been working on the East Coast of Sri Lanka for about a year now - helping re-build schools that were demolished by the Boxing Day Tsunami.

But he has just popped back for a couple of weeks holiday - and is doing the rounds. If you want to hook up with him - please tell Sona - and we will arrange a day where we can all have a pizza and catch up with all the latest news.

Also I have asked him if he can send this blog-site occasional musings. For those of you lucky enough to get his fantastic emails - you will already know what a treat it is to read the truth about the NGO response to the disaster (and the Pakiistan Earthquake).

Simon - please have a great break - recharge every battery - chill out - and then speed back to continue all your excellent work. We all miss you enormously - but it's reassuring to know that there is someone who genuinely cares about people in amongst all that chaos.

peace

posted by Oxfam in the West End at Thursday, December 15, 2005

3 Comments:

  • Sona, please say hello to Simon from me. He looks well - I hope he's enjoying his escape from Railtrack! Is he working on the damage to the coastal railwat line?

    Tell him to keep an eye out for Richard Dietrich and Patrick Elliott from the Campaign Group. Richard and his wife Adriana are in and around Batticaloa, Trincomalee and Jaffna in the North-East and Patrick is in Galle. They bumped into one another in an Irish pub in Colombo!

    Richard's organisation have moved him from working with tsunami-displaced persons whose housing needs are relatively in hand to working with civil war-displaced persons for whom there's very little being done.

    He warns to be very careful watching out for of a first attack of dengue fever in Sri Lanka - apparently it's like a mild flu but then if you get a second attack it's really serious.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:05 AM, December 22, 2005  

  • Sorry, just re-read what you said about Simon working on rebuilding schools - it's too early in the morning for my brain to have started work!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:07 AM, December 22, 2005  

  • Hi Owen

    It was great to have Simon visit us so unexpectedly. I only wish he could have stayed for a whole day.

    He has gone up to his folks for a few days over the festive season - but will be back next week for a couple of days.

    I've asked him to spare a few hours for us in the shop to chat over an esspresso - so as soon as we get a time - I'll let you know.

    But knowing you - you are probably going to be searching for the Portuguese translation of 'self-combustuable diptherical pnumoneia' at that precise time?!

    No such disease? Pah!! Been there - done that!

    peace
    Sóna

    By Blogger Oxfam in the West End, at 12:20 PM, December 22, 2005  

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