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Oxfam blog: The foreign aid worker’s conundrum

February 22, 2010
By cixitatty

Alexandros Yiannopoulos is Oxfam’s coordinator of food security and livelihood in Haiti. To find out more about Oxfam in Haiti visit their website here . It is a strange life being a humanitarian worker.  The funeral of two of Oxfam’s workers who died in the earthquake got me to look back over the...
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Oxfam blog: time to think big in Haiti

February 15, 2010
By clubpenguinbookcodes
Oxfam blog: time to think big in Haiti

Alexandros Yiannopoulos is Oxfam’s coordinator of food security and livelihood in Haiti. To find out more about Oxfam in Haiti visit their website here . It is now time to think big, three weeks in we have a plan, good people in place and now we have to try to achieve one of...
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Driving into the heart of the Turkish countryside

February 14, 2010
By Features - MSN Travel UK

Better roads are making it easier to escape the coast in a hire car and drive from Izmir to Dalaman into a land unspoilt by tourism Lunchtime in Mugla was a simple affair. Sara and I parked the car and settled in at one of a long line of wobbly trestle tables outside...
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Manorhaus, Ruthin | Hotel review

February 14, 2010
By cixitatty

A Welsh boutique hotel that complements its city-slicker image with great food and roaring fires MANORHAUS Well Street, Ruthin, Denbighshire, North Wales (01824 704 830; manorhaus.com ) FIRST IMPRESSIONS I will admit to a twinge of doubt about manorhaus before I set off. There's something about the combination of the words "boutique" "art...
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Game for anything: the safari lodge that thinks it’s a beach resort

February 14, 2010
By cixitatty

Tanzania's Saadani Safari Lodge is in East Africa's only coastal game reserve, where the amazing palm-lined beach is matched by the wildlife spotted on game drives – and by the friendliness of the local Masai tribe Though we couldn't yet see them, we could hear their chants: deep, throaty grunts that rumbled out...
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