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Closing thoughts on the Chico trip to Malawi

I find that when you come back from an Insight Trip with One, it takes some time to get the experience out of your head and to settle back down to the normal reality of everyday life – to some extent at least - as to be honest the experience actually never fully leaves you.
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The rains in Malawi seem to have eased off now

Well, it rained all through the night last night and most of today. For a country so short of water I thought that this is a good thing… but it seems a lot of something in a short space of time is not good at all.
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My 3rd trip to Malawi is well underway

Having breakfast at the airport looking forward to what is going to be a very busy trip.
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My 3rd trip to Malawi is well underway

Having breakfast at the airport looking forward to what is going to be a very busy trip.
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It's World Toilet Day!

Did you know that 2.6 billion people worldwide are without access to proper sanitation, which risks their health, strips their dignity, and kills 1.8 million people, mostly children.
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Private Lives - World Toilet Day November 19th 2010

Here at the Global Ethics office we are facing a number of lavatorial challenges. Firstly the boys and the girls have shared loos so the men have been forced to hone their accuracy and the ladies must speed on through the various tasks at hand in the dual interest of efficiency and queue minimisation. The second challenge is picking us off one by one and as soon as we let our guard down "bang" what was supposed to be a private ritual becomes at once something of public spectacle. It might be that this particular issue will bring us all closer over time under the oxymoronic veil of Public Intimacy but the real value is that it offers us all a glimpse of the minor humiliations millions of people endure on a day to day basis across the world. Let me explain....
