Alnwickdote No 17: What goes around, comes around!

Sharks Fin Soup on open sale in Phnom Penh's popular St 63, November 2015. I kg dried Sharks Fin is on display for $180 at O'Russey Market.  I have tweeted to @WWF

Two things happened recently that took me back to 1998 and my first year in Cambodia.  One was this advertisement for Sharks Fin Soup.  The other was my inability to track down a prominent Cambodian NGO leader.  She has been off yet again on an overseas trip, another 5-star conference.  Is this not a recurring same old story of high-living Lords and Ladies of Poverty?

Alnwickdote No 16: No good crying over spilled milk (Part 2).

My 1996 Rwanda photograph used for a poster campaign with a most unexpected outcome!

Now we all know how frustrating much of our work can be, and those who take on post-disaster emergency relief work, need to have the strongest constitutions, to cope with what they see.

And then something happens or comes along that is inspiring to change our mood, making our humble efforts seem much more worthwhile again.

Alnwickdote No 15: No good crying over spilled milk! (Part 1)

No good crying over spilled milk! (Part 1)

It is usually good advice but many of us in the development aid business have regrets of “what might have been….if only, etc!)  Here I narrate one lament.

Alnwickdote 18: The Friar of Saint Helena Island

One of my big regrets is having few mementos from the pre-digital photography age of my time on Saint Helena.