- In July 1991, a massive flood hit a part of China. With some expert colleagues from Australia, I joined the World Vision Hong Kong colleagues to investigate.
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- In February 1994, I joined colleagues John Rose, Boyne Alley and Ken Tracey to rethink the relationships between field projects and donor development back home.
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- After the success of our February 1994 visit in India, I attempted to repeat the discovery tour with colleagues from our Kenya office.
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- 1994 saw a genocidal war in Rwanda. Immediately after being with the team in Kenya, I was en route to Rwanda. As I wrote in my diary . . .
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- With a weekend free between a fortnight of meetings, I took my hirecar on the Californian Freeways for some R&R in Desert Springs.
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- At the end of 1996, I moved from Australia to lead World Vision International's work in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The region's office was based in Vienna, best location for convenient travel. I had much to learn, so after a gathering of the country directors in Cyprus, I chose Russia.
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- The Balkan Wars caused "ethnic cleansing" to be demonstrated in a European context. The former Yugoslavia split into a bunch of new countries. World Vision relief and rebuilding programs were delivered in Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzogovina. Here's my diary from my first journey to Bosnia.
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- The nuclear accident in Chernobyl send at radioactive north-west into Belarus. World Vision was there in the city of Gomel.
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- World Vision in Georgia and Armenia was focused on micro-enterprise development. Small loans kick-started the emerging capitalist system.
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- I'd been to Lebanon before. I been tutored in the complex politics and the many opportunities World Vision had to restore life and hope. Central to all this was friend and colleague, Jean Bouchebl, with whom I would now be working more closely. But first, Jean wanted me to visit across the border. Jordan.
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- Azerbaijan was just emerging from war with neighbouring Armenia in 1998. World Vision had made good progress in food distribution and microenterprise development.
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- A visit to Dracula's Castle (or perhaps, one like it)
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In 1999, toward the end of my time with World Vision, I found myself again in Israel. Over the previous decade I had visited ten times. In the following two decades I would visit twice more. These notes are from 1999, a time when peace via a two-State solution seemed within reach.
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