Beneath the Mosquito Net

VSO Worldwide Blogs

• A few things you may not know about Ethiopian coffee - Marian Dodds (Ethiopia)
  In a country where even a football team is named Ethiopian Coffee (Bunna in Amharic, pronounced Boo Nah with emphasis on ...
• First meeting of the Kampala Technical Working Group - last piece in the MARPs Networks jigsaw . . for the time being - Ian Smith (Uganda)
  On 14 March the first meeting of the Kampala Technical Working Group was held in the garden at the MARPs Networks offices in Ka...
• Untitled - Um Zayd wa Atheer (Uganda)
  Bring me Son ShineAtheer and Liz flew home to the UK last Friday and I returned to Gulu. The visit, planned last December, turne...
• Because not all taxis are crooked - Our Man in Hanoi (Vietnam)
  Heard the one about the Hanoi taxi driver and the Interpol agents? Best story of last year I reckon, the world8217;s finest la...
• We mean it maam - John Calloway (Nepal)
  Or8230;how I never saw the Sex Pistols. Another trawl through the vinyl, and it seems only right to raise the flag for 8220;...
• Cameroon Meets the Philippines - A Canuck Amuck (Bangladesh)
  There is a common saying among VSO volunteers that VSO stands for Valentine Service Overseas, as many volunteers find romance ...
• Lost in translation? - Alan in Keyna (Kenya)
  I saw this when I was walking around Ngong Road today: Ummm8230; lost in translation, perhaps? Or did I stumble upon some stra...
• The Fine Art of Magazine Cover Virality - Richard Johnson (India)
  When did we all become so completely obsessed with magazine covers?It seems none of us can get enoughsuggestive poses,egregious ...
• Two sides to every story and multiple agendas - Our Man in Hanoi (Vietnam)
  I wanted to share a couple of recent news articles I thought were excellent in terms of giving a really balanced picture of what...
• Kayak the River Gambia: Challenge Completed - Gilly Clifford (Cambodia)
  In March 2007, our friend Shadie died in a car crash in The Gambia. A charity has been set up in his name and in 2009 I took par...