Inyas Blog

Now it´s almost three months that I arrived back to Southern Africa – to this amazing continent full of extrems: amazing people and hospitality – chaotic and ineffective organisation … incredible landscapes – poverty and health problems … lots of work – but also great short-time holidays. Even if my pictures speak different languages and showcase only the holiday-part I am actually working and enjoy it a lot. At GTZ and our partner, SADC, I am responsible to further develop their “Monitoring and Evaluation” systems to report, what our projects are doing with German tax-payer money and what impact they have in the SADC region. Besides I am involved in different public relation projects (like the Southern African Water Wire), lately also one to the World Cup as you see here with SADC 2010 and I am supporting activities for donor harmonisation.

In addition I also managed to fully arrive in Gaborone – with own house, car and ‘weekend-get-aways’. As you see in the pictures I am not only driving an own car again – after ten years – with the wheel on the steering-wrong side but I also live in a small house in the suburbs of Gaborone. These are quite some changes from the small room in Singapore with its great public transport to this new adventure. But as you know I like challenges and especially if I have to adapt myselfs to new settings – that keeps fresh and was exactly what I was looking for. After these first weeks I feel also well introduced to the life of Gaborone with its braai-parties, cinemas, game drives and even theatre-performances (see article about No 1 Ladies theatre). In the end of this month the adventure is getting even more exiting, as Susi will join me here, and so I am looking forward for more great months to see and experience a piece of Africa together.

Tags: Gaborone, GTZ, SADC