World Wide Web: possibly the greatest unrealized dream of our generation. When I first arrived in Addis the thing that annoyed me most was, sadly but not surprisingly, a lack of high speed internet and frequently no internet at all.
Your first thought may be, ‘Geeze, get over yourself, you’re working in the developing world, what [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Whatever Happened to ‘World Wide Web’?
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Test
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I can’t seem to post anything…
Update: Kechene Pre-School
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Saturday, July 5th, we (local community members, school staff, Katie Wilkerson and myself) installed a tower for a water tank that will used to store enough water for cooking and hopefully a bath or two per week per student.
The installation was very much a community effort. It was nice working up a sweat [...]
4th of July, Habesha Style
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
July 4th was a fantastic community gathering at Cherokee House. I spent Friday morning and early afternoon meeting with HIV+ support groups at Mission to the World, to discuss possible income generating activities (this is the project I’m working on with MBA students from Duke and UNC). Luckily, I was able to make it back [...]

