At of the start of November I began a 3 month
adventure living in the USA. 2.5 weeks in, I’ve visited 3 states (Maine
and New Hampshire, from my base in Massachusetts)…
And now when I come to write the rest of the post
we’ve got up to 3 weeks already. Life moves fast when you’re not
looking. In the meantime I’ve been working at my new job, figuring out
life in a new house/new town/new country, and coming to terms with how
life is different when you share your house with a) a dog, and b) a baby
niece-in-law.
I have to say that life has probably sped past because the going is good.
Later this week I’ll be swapping the rapidly
dropping temperatures of the North Atlantic coast for sunnier conditions
over the other side of the Pacific. I’m off to Bali to facilitate and
participate in the Global Youth Forum – an event organised by the United
Nations Population Fund as part of the 20 years review of the Programme
for Action from the International Conference on Population and
Development (it took place in Cairo in 1994).
You can find more info about the event at http://icpdyouth.org/ and can take part in this event too – from the comfort of your own home (no jet lag to contend with).
This review process is going to (hopefully) link
together with the Millennium Development Goals review process in the
lead up to their expiry in 2015. In my mind the best outcome would be a
single set of goals for development that thoroughly encompass a human
rights based approach and can be applied to address the inequalities in
Western Europe as easily as for ensuring basic needs are met in Eastern
Africa.
I’ll have more updates (I plan) in the next two weeks.
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