Dear all, what a special week this was!
It started with Robert going on a long wanted week long fieldtrip, to Axum, that is high up in the North, in the Simien mountains, a beautiful range between 3000 and 4000 meter high.
He came back today, impressed with the community work that had been done by villagers in the last 3 years: kilometers of mountain hillsides have been transformed into terraces, with regular catchment holes to catch the water of the heavy rains before it makes erosion gullies.
Of course he also managed to see some 6 'new' bird species ( meaning we saw them for the first time) , amongst which the Malachite kingfisher (Beak where do you go with that bird?) , the Varaible sunbird and Blanfords' lark.
Meanwhile, the littlle dog that we only just adopted (see earlier entry) got hit by a car on tuesday evening. She was in shock, so I wrapped her in my only blanket. Next day to the Vet. Luckily a Dutch friend of mine knew of a very good one, an Ethiopian, my age, worked and studied in Germany, very nice guy and he had time. Her ankle was damaged. So she got a nice blue bandage, after which we call her Taxi (same colour as the multitude of old Lada taxi's around here). However, I had to come back for a strange bulge in her underbelly, which appeared to be a hernia and had to be operated upon yesterday. She is a bit handicapped now, poor thing.
Very exiting is that I got a job here! for 2 days a week i am the coordinator of a network of frontrunner farmers and entrepreneurs in rural areas here. I am asked by Agri- pro Focus Learning Alliance ( see http://apf-ethiopia.ning.com/ and http://www.fs-ethiopia.com/index.php/projects/agri-profocus) to coordinate the working Groups, about 10, each on a different theme, like gender, businessplans, cooperatives, acces to finance.
It started with Robert going on a long wanted week long fieldtrip, to Axum, that is high up in the North, in the Simien mountains, a beautiful range between 3000 and 4000 meter high.
Meanwhile, the littlle dog that we only just adopted (see earlier entry) got hit by a car on tuesday evening. She was in shock, so I wrapped her in my only blanket. Next day to the Vet. Luckily a Dutch friend of mine knew of a very good one, an Ethiopian, my age, worked and studied in Germany, very nice guy and he had time. Her ankle was damaged. So she got a nice blue bandage, after which we call her Taxi (same colour as the multitude of old Lada taxi's around here). However, I had to come back for a strange bulge in her underbelly, which appeared to be a hernia and had to be operated upon yesterday. She is a bit handicapped now, poor thing. Very exiting is that I got a job here! for 2 days a week i am the coordinator of a network of frontrunner farmers and entrepreneurs in rural areas here. I am asked by Agri- pro Focus Learning Alliance ( see http://apf-ethiopia.ning.com/ and http://www.fs-ethiopia.com/index.php/projects/agri-profocus) to coordinate the working Groups, about 10, each on a different theme, like gender, businessplans, cooperatives, acces to finance.
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