This morning we travelled to Belize City for the monthly NCA Board meeting. I met a lot of new faces including the chairperson of the NCA, Ms. Kamela Palma. I had to give a presentation on the work I had done so far and what I hoped to achieve while I am in Belize. I was … [Read more...]

Usually when you arrive in Belize they give you a one month visa which you can extend each month. Mine is due to expire on October 22nd so I went to Immigration today to have it extended for another 30 days. When I got there the man at the desk took my passport and asked me … [Read more...]

Today I got an email from a Kenyan volunteer in Belize. He is also here for 3 months and arrived about two weeks ago. He says he was searching the web for Belize Blogs and came across mine! Plans to introduce Nyama Choma to Belize have been mentioned.... … [Read more...]

Following on from this incident, things at home went from bad to worse. My placement leader (PL) felt that it was in everybody's interest for me to move. She spoke to a lady who had hosted a previous CWW volunteer and she agreed to take me. I had met her a while back and we … [Read more...]

Today I spent a good part of the day making 16 copies of Legal Review of Elderly People in Belize. It is a 60 page document and I was using a small desktop, manual feed photocopier. I have to distrubte the document to every single Ministry CEO and urge them to read it and … [Read more...]