New travel blog on wordpress.

Hello readers!

How are you? I hope you are well. 

I thought I would drop by to let you know that I have been working on a new travelblog over at Wordpress, check out my about page here. 

Currently I am blogging about my recent walk along El Camino de Santiago in 2015, from St. Jean de Pied Port in the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela and beyond to Finisterre and Muxia in Spain. It was a 900 km trek of profound beauty, inspiration and significance for me. I hope you will drop in to take a look. Click here for the home page. 

I will continue to blog about my travel adventures there when I join my partner Brett and we set off to sail around the world, co-creating plenty of adventures on the high seas as well as a few on dry land. 

I have also posted up some "Confessions of an aid worker", drawn from my last 20 years in the humanitarian and development sector, so feel free to take a look at this too, click here.

If you are feeling tired, burned out or in a phase of transition and need to boost your wellbeing, take a look at my intuitive healing page here, perhaps I can help you in some way. 

Thank you for reading and journeying with me so far. I look forward to hearing from you on my new site soon.

Peace, love and light,

Sarah xxx

A little four letter word update

Yes...that little four letter word called WORK, which is what I'm actually here for in Namibia and not on an extended holiday or foodie fest, honest! I thought I'd better mention a couple of sentences about how things are going here.

My colleagues and I circulated our joint UNFPA/NRCS Regional Field Visit Report on Protection in Flood Relief and Recovery to a wide range of people in agencies and National and Regional Government and have used it to generate discussion and planning for activities we can carry out in the coming months to strengthen the protection sector before the next rains.

The report has been well received and we are in the process of planning a national level protection in natural disasters training workshop for a range of actors with support from the Global Protection Cluster Working Group (GPCWG) and regional trainings together with the Namibia Red Cross Society (NRCS) which will take place in November. In addition we have been working closely with our colleagues in the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to provide some input into their Camp Coordination and Camp Management training of trainers course, specifically two protection chapters. The ToT course was launched this Wednesday and will commence in the northern regions of Namibia in the first week of November. It is really good to know that protection will be covered during capacity development of camp managers.

National launch of IOM's ToT course

I've continued to participate in various UNDAF activities including assisting a small editorial group to edit the Country Analysis paper and attending a validation workshop for said paper. I still can't get my head around the fact that it can take almost 2 years to develop an UNDAF (United Nations Development Assistance Framework) that will cover a 5 year development cycle, so no sooner is one completed then the next one begins.....