Tricia's Rwandan Adventures

Madonna in the early days Mystery Woman home made festival  lanterns  The lovely and talented Ella Fitzgerald   Denise and...

Hello supporters Thank you so much for everything you do for Msizi Africa.  However, this time, I’m not writing about our children.  Most ...

I’ve just seen a poor man being sick and the vomit was bright luminous pink. I think this may be the local   medicine for a poisoned gut. Th...

OK, so usually we are ‘cooking on gas’ but what happens when the gas bottle runs out and how do other volunteers cook all the time? When v...

People say to me’ I hope you’re as happy as you sound’ or ‘Tell us about the bad times as well as the good.’ The problem with the bad times...

The guys  This week, I had a great weekend in Gitarama. Sometimes, it’s good to go away for the weekend and visit friends, see new thing...

lunar eclipse This year I’m celebrating the solstice in Rwanda and last week I experienced the total eclipse of the moon for 100 minutes...

Periodic table in bottle tops Microscope Work All my plans have come to fruition – not necessarily in the exact way I expected but c...

The road building continues   For weeks it has been raining almost constantly – just like being in the Lake District, only the mountains ...

The last three days of this week were spent in Kigali at the Annual  Education conference for all volunteers and staff of VSO who are in...

I pass this poster every day on my way to work Ok,   so this is a typical Saturday when I’m not going away for the weekend. Saturday mo...

The Centre of Operations Ok, so I’ve been asked to write about what I do when I go out to schools on these trips. The answer is that it ...