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Last Day
The tides were low this morning, the ocean seemed a long way away. Many men and women were crouching over buckets of ocean water to dish...

kwankew
Aug 14, 2018
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Mature Beyond Her Age
I abandoned my run this morning because of a planned early start to the clinic but it turned out not to be. It has been difficult to have...

kwankew
Aug 13, 2018
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Life's Simple Pleasures
It rained last night and dawn brought in another bright and sunny day. There were white puffy clouds over the ocean but no signs of dark...

kwankew
Aug 12, 2018
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The Children
This morning we drove through the Kutupalong Camp so the new volunteers could have a look at the camp to see where the refugees are...

kwankew
Aug 11, 2018
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Winding Through the camps
Another bright and sunny day and it was actually starting to be a scorcher. Patches of blue sky certainly were not harbinger of rain. So...

kwankew
Aug 9, 2018
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Visiting Jamtoli Camp
Dawn brought in a bright and sunny day but where I stayed, sunlight could not penetrate. The walls of the buildings were within a foot of...

kwankew
Aug 8, 2018
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Kalabano
Another bright and sunny day. This morning I looked for the homeless children but they had already moved on. A woman was sweeping the...

kwankew
Aug 7, 2018
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Survival
There was no rain today. The sun shone brightly this morning and it had risen by the time I ran to the beach. Choosing a secluded spot, I...

kwankew
Aug 6, 2018
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Settling In
It rained during the night and the dirt roads to the main tarmac road turned into mud puddles. Rain clouds gathered ominously in the...

kwankew
Aug 5, 2018
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Back to Cox’s Bazar
This morning I rose early to run on the beach. There were people playing soccer, a few runners and many walkers but the hazy sky hid the...

kwankew
Aug 4, 2018
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PTSD and Fate Hanging in the Balance
This was my last day at the camp! It was clearer this morning. In the corridor of the store-front leading to the beach in my run this...

kwankew
Jan 18, 2018
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Sun Set over the Kutupalong Camp
I thought yesterday was my last time to the Obat clinic at Kutupalong Camp but at the last minute it seemed the three UK doctors decided...

kwankew
Jan 17, 2018
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Woman Headed Households
It took us an hour and a half to get to Obat, riding in a van (an improvement over the bouncing Tom Tom) and walking through the...

kwankew
Jan 16, 2018
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The Hard Realities: Witness to Atrocities
Today was very foggy, I could only see between 30 to 50 feet in front of me. I went running around 6:30 am, the air was moist and felt...

kwankew
Jan 15, 2018
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Another Day at the Hope Clinic
At the clinic, I ran into Bonnie, a familiar face, the mid-wife who was with me in South Sudan, she was volunteering with Hope Foundation...

kwankew
Jan 14, 2018
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A Red Bundle
Most of last week’ volunteers stayed a week and left, three male doctors from UK joined us. Right around late morning at the Hope Clinic,...

kwankew
Jan 13, 2018
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The Dispossessed
I went back to Hope Clinic working with my translator Russel, saw 27 patients mainly aches and pains, respiratory infections and...

kwankew
Jan 11, 2018
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A Bleak Future
I was dropped off Obat alone by the roadside to the Obat guest house even as the medical coordinator had not been able to get in touch...

kwankew
Jan 10, 2018
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At the Obat Clinic
Four of us were dropped off at an intersection and five of us including a worker from Obat, another NGO squeezed into a Tom Tom to travel...

kwankew
Jan 9, 2018
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Grieving
I saw a sea turtle on the beach on my run this morning, its eyes were gouged out and one of the front legs was partially chewed off and a...

kwankew
Jan 8, 2018
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