Travel Stories and Life Events
you can find interesting stories of all the tourist places that we visited
While going around Oxford city where i met Maureen Roberts who was Director HR and Admin in Oxfam head office in Delhi..Maureen used to visit all field offices and i had the opportunity of meeting her a number of times during OITSA..oxfam staff association ..meetings…in fact i met her in Oxfam headquarters in Oxford and … Read more
Trafalgar Square in London is one of the very popular squares. This is in Central London and this location is very popular for feral pigeons. Whenever you come to this place you will find large gathering of pigeons and people take pictures of these and tourists are allowed to feed them. I am happy to … Read more
We had an annual review and team building exercise done at Gopalpur, Ganjam. In this all Oxfam Bhubaneswar staff participated – this was done immediately after the 2000 flood relief and rehabilitation. Since this was done for all the staff including the relief and rehabilitation staff. In addition to individual introductions, sharing of experiences. This … Read more
Immediately after Tsunami I joined Save the Children UK as Finance and Grants Officer in Sri Lanka in 2005….I was posted in Matara the southern province in Sri Lanka….Like southern province other parts of Sri Lanka like Trincomalai,Batticolai,Ampara, were most affected..in south Galle,Hiikaduwa,Matara and some stress o Ambantota were affected…Pascale Benchayat (she is a Frech … Read more
I first met Joe Human in Oxfam Bangalore where Oxfam conducted a training programme on staff development related where Joe was the facilitator. I can remember exactly UT was my early days in Oxfam..I was very young straight from college..sometime early 1980s….doesn’t have much exposure . Then after that Joe and his wife came to … Read more
OITSA – OXFAM India Trust Staff Association – Oxfam has its field officies all over India – to name Hyderabad,Lucknow,Kolkata,Bhubaneswar,Ahmedabad and Bangalore. Since Oxfam has a large number of staff across these State level offices above. Oxfam has its headquarters in Oxford, UK. Since Oxfam has been working since 1942 – has been the top … Read more
Two pieces of Two Rupee note in Ahmedabad While working for Oxfam I had to attend a workshop in Ahmedabad…To reach Ahmedabad I had to take a flight from Kolkata to Mumbai and from there another flight to Ahmedabad…reached late night… my flight to Ahmedabad was cancelled..hence I had to take next morning flight..the airlines … Read more
As i may have mentioned in my previous posts that i was selected at Block level (The Block Education Officer ask for some student names who can participate in a competitive exam. From our school few students were selected and i was one of them. The day the exam took place our school teacher took … Read more
Though my career in NGO/Development sector goes back to few decades, I was in break period after my assignment with Interact Worldwide (will write about that assignment). Some of my friends knew that i was looking for some consultancy assignments based in Bhubaneswar but was prepared to move around the projects in the country. One … Read more
This year – it was 2004 we the HIV AIDS Alliace team of Hyderabad decided to go to Goa for Annual Retreat and Review Meeting. We had a wonderful time in Goa. All staff reached Secunderabad railway station to take a train to Goa. The train that we took is for half way as we … Read more