http://www.msf.org.uk/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092aJoanna has lived in Harare for over a year now. Her work as a Field Communications Officer for MSF has taken her to different parts of Zimbabwe, working with MSF on projects from HIV programmes to emergency response.Copyright 2010 MSF. All rights reserved.Today Dennis is awake and sitting up. Gogo is happy to see me, while Dennis can not take his eyes off the notebook and pen I brought him together with some crayons. I do not understand until later why these are so important to him. Juliette, the MSF head nurse is here as well. She is [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=b3a28c27-ee2c-4832-b063-6069e39af245http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=b3a28c27-ee2c-4832-b063-6069e39af245Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:37:17 GMTMy assignment today is to find a cholera kid – that is find a child above five that has cholera and whose guardian would allow me to talk to them in order to get a child’s perspective on this disease that has hit Zimbabwe. My task may seem straightforward, since even today there are a hundreds [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=11c755d2-4786-4890-9244-e49fe2ae8338http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=11c755d2-4786-4890-9244-e49fe2ae8338Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:34:00 GMTI get a call from MSF Headquarters that they need a brief story of an MSF beneficiary for the Annual Report. I have met so many, heard so many stories, written about so many of them, that I decide it is easier just to drive over to our closest project and just meet someone new. [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=64320596-8856-461f-bd11-7f71c4ff4e7dhttp://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=64320596-8856-461f-bd11-7f71c4ff4e7dMon, 16 Mar 2009 16:28:16 GMTWe finally get to the number we had looked for, but find out that Maria doesn’t live there; it is her brother’s house. He says where she lives there are no numbers that is why Maria uses his address. He offers to show us the way. We drive along the dirt roads between the houses [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=7bd71260-c5a0-4059-848e-6226ee178a2fhttp://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=7bd71260-c5a0-4059-848e-6226ee178a2fTue, 10 Mar 2009 14:18:07 GMTRemember the pregnant lady I met at the Oral Rehydration Point? A week and a half later, I went to look for her and find out what had become of her and the baby. “Hey Heidi!” It is always great meeting up with Heidi, our MSF nurse who works at the MSF cholera camps in [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=f3d07a5c-28d5-4838-8285-d0bcb7cab0c2http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=f3d07a5c-28d5-4838-8285-d0bcb7cab0c2Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:13:51 GMTWe leave the burial and disinfecting team to get on with their business and four of us set off to Kingston Farm. I find out that actually it is now no longer a privately owned farm but rather a community which has taken over and each care for his or her crops. We find the settlement [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=321a419c-d0cc-4586-9be8-b633b75bf1a1http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=321a419c-d0cc-4586-9be8-b633b75bf1a1Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:16:22 GMTBy checking on their cholera treatment center in Chiwardizo clinic in Bindura (about 88 kilometers northeast of Harare), MSF teams found a new spike in cases on February 22, with 65 people admitted and the numbers rising rapidly. I went to visit Chiwardizo for a couple of days soon afterwards. The patio of Chiwaridzo clinic, [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=142c439b-acaf-40f2-a1be-c203e535c7d5http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=142c439b-acaf-40f2-a1be-c203e535c7d5Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:08:56 GMTBack in the car I stare out the window thinking about the situation. I ask Precious if she like so many of her country-people is thinking of leaving the country. “No,” she says shaking her head. “Sometimes it is not about you, it is about the next person, about the next vulnerable person. You have [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=8294d944-3427-4b6a-938a-88fde8e601behttp://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=8294d944-3427-4b6a-938a-88fde8e601beThu, 26 Feb 2009 15:24:31 GMT“So why do they call them elephant pumps?” I asked Precious, as I stand in front of an aqua blue round concrete that comes up as high as my head. To each side are handles and in front of me is a protruding pipe. Precious Matarutse, 24, has worked for MSF for a year in implementing [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=a5fe114e-e280-4e1b-8fbc-e683386f4e62http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=a5fe114e-e280-4e1b-8fbc-e683386f4e62Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:11:06 GMTBy now it is quite sunny. We’ve got a while to go until we reach our next destination. We exchange stories with Georgina about our lives; she shows me mobile phone-photos of her 4-year daughter who I in all honesty exclaim over since she does look absolutely adorable. Both she and her husband are nurses [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=1da0576c-9233-4a93-8447-c5839b435e63http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=1da0576c-9233-4a93-8447-c5839b435e63Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:01:20 GMTToday the sky is turquoise blue with smiling white clouds floating around but all during last night it had been raining. I’m accompanying Georgina one of our MSF nurses. She is 32, pretty with an open smile and neat hairdo of raised cornrows and very determined. She wants to visit one of MSF’s most remote [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=7784f3e0-bba2-47f9-98f1-320c865c7e8fhttp://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=7784f3e0-bba2-47f9-98f1-320c865c7e8fFri, 20 Feb 2009 14:58:35 GMT “Why can’t you fix the whole urban water system,” asks a man as Dominique, MSF’s Water & Sanitation (watsan) expert and I stop at a busy market place in Dzivarasekwa; a Harare township. Our MSF mobile team of bucket chlorinators is here and Dominique wants to see how they are doing. The team goes around [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=0d924d00-4c9b-49ec-937b-94cbd0afae64http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=0d924d00-4c9b-49ec-937b-94cbd0afae64Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:07:29 GMT“Coléra, coléra!!” shout little Zimbabwean kids running after our MSF minivan as it splashes through sewage soaked muddy roads in the high density Harare township of Dzivaresekwa (or Dziva or just Dizzy as some expats have started calling it). Revayi our driver laughs and puts the music up higher. He usually works his minivan as [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=d86249c1-fe22-431a-9b75-e4915a70554bhttp://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=d86249c1-fe22-431a-9b75-e4915a70554bTue, 10 Feb 2009 15:00:59 GMT Joanna has lived in Harare for over a year now. Her work as a Field Communications Officer for MSF has taken her to different parts of Zimbabwe, where she spent a substantial amount of time in Bulawayo and Beitbridge. Her daily life and the work with MSF in Zimbabwe – ranging from HIV programs [...]http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=b5ca52d5-248d-4c2e-8d1e-32a2e3ade6a1http://www.msf.org.uk:80/blogentry.aspx?fId=c773ac02-c3c8-493b-8c08-bc7ba1b3092a&eId=b5ca52d5-248d-4c2e-8d1e-32a2e3ade6a1Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:55:36 GMT