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After what some may consider careers in consulting and logistics, we quit our jobs, sold our stuff and left Germany to be full-time travelers and development volunteers. This blog is about our travels, our work as volunteers and our alternative life strategies - always looking to make an impact and to find the meaning in what we do or put some into it if we can't find any. -
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Shirt Raffle -Unser letztes Hemd
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Fundraising: Yodelin' for donations
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How to survive in Belize City
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How to prepare for a hurricane in Belize
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6 favourite places to eat (and drink...) out in Belize ...
6. Dezember 2011 // 5 Comments
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Volunteering in a shark tank to save the reef
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Von Cowboys, BHs und Handys
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Of cowboys, bras and phones
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Die 7 Grundsätze des Roten Kreuzes und Roten Halbmondes ...
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The 7 fundamental principles of the Red Cross and Red C ...
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Earplugs Swiss Army Knife (or Leatherman) Eye Ma ...
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Erste Disaster Projekt Umfragerunde
Um herauszufinden wie gut ein Projekt fuer eine Gemeinde war, muss man zunaechst einmal die Basis kennen. Fuer unser “Saving Lives in the Caribbean Through Prepardness” Disaster Risk Reduction Projekt waren wir in den letzten Wochen in 8 Gemeinden unterwegs und haben die sogenannte “Baseline” Umfrage gemacht. Dabei werden 100 Haushalte aus allen Teilen der Gemeinde mit 32 [...]
Surveys, surveys, surveys
Happy after a long day In order to measure the impact of a project you have to know what the basis is. For our “Saving Lives in the Caribbean Through Prepardness” Disaster Risk Reduction project we worked on exactly that in the past weeks. In all the 14 communitites we did the so called “baseline” survey to measure how well [...]
Rotes Kreuz Belize ‘Gesicherte Schulen Programm’ in Belize City
Das ’Gesichere Schulen Programm’ Das ‘Gesicherte Schulen Programm’ ist Teil des ‘Vom Land zur Stadt Disaster Minimierungs Program’. Dieses Program ist gesponsort und wird unterstuetzt vom Norwegischen Roten Kreuz und der Europaeischen Kommission fuer humanitaere Hilfe. Einige von Euch erinnern sich bestimmt noch an das psycho-social-Training, dass ich waehrend der ersten Woche beim Roten Kreuz in [...]
Belize Red Cross ‘Protected Schools Program’ in Belize City
The Protected Schools Program The ‘Protected Schools Program’ is part of the Belize Red Cross ‘Rural to Urban Disaster Risk Reduction Program’. This program is sponsored and supported by the Norwegian Red Cross and the European Commission for Humanitarian Aid. Some of you might remember that I participated in a psychosocial-support-training during the first week [...]
Tropical Storm Rina Thursday / Donnerstag
Rina - Thursday / DonnerstagSource/Quelle: www.stormpulse.com Today we had a storm free day. NEMO, the official Emergency Organisation in Belize, called ‘clear’ for all Belize as of yesterday. So we were back to normal like there was nothing. Heute hatten wir ‘sturmfrei’. NEMO, die offizielle Disaster Einrichtung (kein Kommentar….), hatte gestern Belize komplett ‘frei’ gegeben was Rina angeht. Also [...]
Hurricane Rina – Wednesday/Mittwoch
Weather - Wednesday/MittwochBelize is getting more and more uneasy about the development of Hurricane Rina. Since it is moving so slow (still only 4mph) and staying on the edge of becoming a category 3 Hurricane (> 111mph of speed the water cyrcels in the system) Belizeans increase the preparations for the scenario of Rina making a surprise-turn and [...]
How I learned how to manage a hurricane
“Hurricane Gina hits Belize City as a Category 2 at 12pm” “12,670 injured in Belize City, 6200 destroyed houses” “The roof of KHM hospital collapsed. People need evacuation” ” 2 pregnant women in Port Loyola need immediate help” “Northern Highway is completely flooded and unpassable. All search and rescue units up north can not return [...]
Tagebuch: Tropical Storm Harvey
Hallo Leser, ich ersticke gerade in Arbeit. Daher einfach per Copy und Paste aus meinem Tagebuch die Eindrücke vom Wochenende – raw und unedited. Plus ein paar Videos von Kerstin. Viel Spaß Holger Freitag: 10:00 Die ersten E-Mails kommen mit Infos: Ein Sturm kommt auf Belize zu. Das Zentrum soll wohl im Süden landen – [...]
