Project site

Wherever we go, ladies love chatting ;-)

Toilet in a village

I liked it!
I heard it was done by NGO.

An entrepreneur in a village

I liked this mini shop in a village.

River with water

On the way to the project site, a driver told me that there was no water at all at this river during the dry season! I can't believe!

Swimming in the cow pool

On the way to the project site in NBG, we swam in the famous "cow pool" ;-) 

And I found a boy was carrying newly born calf  :-)

My dinner in Aweil

Last time when I came to Aweil, my colleague introduced me a very nice local bakery which is just 3 min walk from our office.
So this time, I decided to come to Aweil with Cheese and canned fish for my sandwich with the locally-made fresh bread!

I'm ready for field trip tomorrow after almost 4 hrs discussion with an engineer!

Ofuro

A mission to Aweil from tomorrow (the map from BBC News)

Today, I was delighted to be invited by JP con to Japanese style bath(ofuro) at their camp!
What a luxury to have such an relaxing moment in Juba!! I can survive another one week till my next leave.

Tomorrow, I'll leave Juba for Aweil for a short mission.

Seafood Dinner at river bank

Calamari Salad, Smoked salmon, Seafood platter, California roll, Seafood Pizza...

In the country without sea, what a luxury to have seafood dinner looking over River Nile!

Unique tree in Terekeka

What kind of tree is this??

Refugees' voice from South Sudan

World Refugee Day at Gorom Refugee Settlement (Annuak Refugee from Ethiopia)

Today, it was World Refugee Day.

I cerebrated the day with Annuak Refugees at Gorom Refugee Settlement in the morning
and with Nuba Refugees in town in the afternoon.

For me, what always encourages me is that we have many colleague at UNHCR who used to be refugees in the past. It is very encouraging and bright message than anything - they became UNHCR staff because they were supported by UNHCR in the past and they want to return the same to someone who is now a refugee.



No one chooses to be a refugee.

Today's Way Station (as of 19.June.2012)

Land filling & compacting are almost done!
The foundation and other fabrication work will start from next week.

A stone??

Antibiotics

Painkiller

I suffered from severe pain at my upper stomach and high fever last night.
And I went to see doctor to find out what it is.

Then, a doctor had suspected "acute cholecystitis"(I didn't know what it means and asked my friend to find out what it is in Japanese - "kyu-sei tannou en") but it turned out it was not after another doctor from UNMISS clinic checked ultrasound.

And the doctor explained it must be infection again... but not exactly where and what kind of infection... (sure??)
So I started to take antibiotics and pain killer from tonight. Should I go back to Japan to see a doctor??

Wii at a high end hotel in Juba

We played Wii on the weekend over so-men(japanese noodle) dinner!
Actually, it was fun! If I live in the house with adequate size of room & TV next time, I might bet one for me ;-)

Kids in Juba

Kids at the Way Station in Juba

Beautiful smiles!!

Refugee in Arabic

My colleague from Jordan gave me this souvenir yesterday!
According to him, this motif describes the Arabic character means "Refugee". Cool design!

Thank you-!

Today's Way Station (as of 13.June.2012)

JP con is spreading Marram(red soil) to elevate the flat land

JP con is working just next to the area where the returnees spend their transit life at our way station

Machines brought from Japan

Today, we had a high official visit by JP gov

Transit site in Capri

I never blogged about but there has been a highlight in our operation during past one month.
It is massive airlifted return movement from Khartoum directly to Juba.

To temporary accommodate those returnees who needs to travel again to their village from Juba, government/UNHCR/IOM opened a transit site in Capri(outskirt of Juba) together with partners.

First batch of airlifted return movement had been over last week but another batch of movement started this week.
Wishing their safe journey to their home land before the strong rain hamper their travel.

Marram is delivered!

Finally, today  Marram(red soil) for land-filling was delivered to the project site!
This is the first material for the collaboration project between UNHCR and JP contingent.
Since it took long for the procurement process, I was quite happy to see Marram on the ground!! :-)

Farewell dinner at River Nile

 

Last night, we had a farewell dinner for JP intelligence team who were working for UNMISS(PKO mission in South Sudan) as secondment.

They were the first JP deployment for UNMISS from Japan. After 6 months, they rotate the staff member and now it's time for the first team to go back to Japan.

For me, since it is my first experience to see Japanese deployment for PKO mission on the site, it has been quite good experience to learn how it works, even seeing from outside. 

Especially the collaboration project with Japanese Self Defense Force(Jieitai) as part of UNMISS, it has been quite enriching experience for me to learn how such joint project with external organization works by hands-on.

Most of my energy is now spent for logistical arrangement though...