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1
A rough guide to survival in Sri Lanka and
Timor-Leste
  • Patrick Rawstorne
  • Jason Lee

2
Presentation
  • A bit of fun!
  • Challenges
  • Rewards

3
Sri lanka
4
Map of Timor Leste
5
Challenges
  • Working within the context of in-country systems
  • Timor post conflict, building governance
    systems. Difficult bureaucracy
  • Sri Lanka Tsunami, bureaucracy, Sinhalese and
    Tamil interests, class system

6
Sri Lanka - Galle
7
Sri Lanka - tsunami damage
8
Challenges
  • Cross cultural differences
  • Sri Lanka weddings and funerals, poya,
    buddhism and monks
  • Timor timor timepublic holidays announced
    the day before

9
Sri Lanka - on the ramparts at Galle Fort
10
Challenges
  • Language barriers
  • Timor Portugeses, Tetum, and Bahasa
  • Sri Lanka Two official languages Sinhalese
    and Tamil. English taught only at private schools
    and colleges

11
Timor filling up!
12
Challenges
  • Away from support structures family, friends,
    colleagues

13
Timor road to Suai
14
Challenges
  • Incongruence between details of the grant and
    what can be achieved
  • Timor Global Fund (proposed methodology RDS)
  • Sri Lanka Inflated estimates of sub-population
    sizes

15
Timor - Community consultation in the districts
16
Challenges
  • Working in resource limited settings health
    care needs
  • Sri Lanka privacy in medical care,
    accommodation in smaller towns
  • Timor Availability of PEP and other
    medications, districts instant noodles, no
    electricity

17
Timor market place in the districts
18
Challenges
  • Quality of life away from loved ones,
    isolation, pollution, availability of services
    and entertainment
  • Timor supermarket / service station / pizza
    parlour milk
  • Sri Lanka pollution, entertainment / going out

19
Three-wheel driver taxi stand - Polonnaruwa
20
Challenges
  • Security issues
  • Sri Lanka Bombs. Ongoing conflict between the
    Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lanka government
  • Timor witnessed stabbing by a rioting mob.
    Curfews post assassination attempt

21
  • Rewards not all doom and gloom

22
Rewards
  • Relationship building both professionally and
    personally
  • Timor ICS, MOH, NGOs
  • Sri Lanka MOH, Local consulting company, NGOs

23
Timor mapping team
24
Rewards
  • Sharing knowledge and lessons learnt expanding
    capacity
  • Sri Lanka Relevance/value/recognition.
    Chairing the Project Planning Committee. Being
    asked as a key speaker at the annual venereology
    conference
  • Timor Sit with the Surveillance Advisory Group
    (WHO MOH)

25
Sri Lanka - Jagath Senevaratna (MG Consultants),
RBN Sunil and MW Jayasundera Consultants from
the University of Sri Jayewardenepura
26
Rewards
  • Research capacity building
  • Timor (interns) formal capacity building
  • Sri Lanka happens at all levels and often
    informal

27
Sri Lanka - mapping team
28
Rewards
  • Stimulating
  • Sense of responsibility
  • Hones ones research as well as management skills
  • Sense of job satisfaction when things go well

29
MSM Dance party Mt Lavinia
30
Rewards
  • Broadening horizons experiences exposure to
    new thinking
  • Learning about new cultures - working in those
    environments
  • Exposure to new types of cuisine
  • Seeing new places of interest

31
Unawatuna
32
Hill country - Haputale
33
Rock Temple, Dambulla
34
Diver at Galle Fort
35
Bevis Bawas garden near Bentota
36
Elephant orphanage, Pinnawela
37
Sri Lanka - stick fishermen near Koggala
38
Galle
39
Timor beach near K41
40
Timor famous Christo
41
Timor en route to Ainaro
42
Timor famous Christo
43
Timor cultural dance
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