In Wairarapa, Aotearoa after Gulu, Uganda 2016/23 . Twin boys with 2 siblings. Human Being, Creative, Visionary, Photographer. Adobe Community Expert..
From arriving in Uganda Dec 2016 single, no kids to arriving back in Aotearoa/New Zealand Dec 2023 with a partner and four beautiful children to start a new adventure in a new country in a new year
#withloveandkindness
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#withalittlehelpfromourfriends
Today my boys Ocen (left) and Opiyo turn 5. They are an Acoli/Aotearoa mix speaking Luo and English…. Hope to have them in Aotearoa/New Zealand soon and have them fluent in te reo Māori as well…
Happy Birthday guys - the world is your oyster 🎂🎉🚀🎊🐘🐘
@DavidBieleski
Wow, thanks for saying all that is the best of Aotearoa …
@jacindaardern
a great leader but first and foremost a great human being!! Strong beyond imagination…
Like your experience in LA, here in the middle of Africa people, especially women, know and respect here. NZ has lost
@CarterCenter
@WillieNelson
Happy Birthday President Carter. Best wishes from Gulu, Uganda where you presence is felt on the ground every day…. A photo from this week at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital
@tyromper
I hardly saw my Dad who was working or out…. I had my first kids at 62, twin boys, they have two older siblings aged 11 and 16 .. I’m now 68 and do as little as possible spending as much time with the kids as I can .. we have little but we have each other living in Gulu, Uganda
@Mihi_Forbes
Just the best thing.. I so wish we had it at school when I was there. As a Pākeha I love the elevation and restoration of our Māori and Polynesian cultures… this is who we are and defines us. Bring on Aotearoa and a flag with a kiwi - that is what I call myself living in Gulu
@StephenClarkeNZ
@flaneuse_di
@jacindaardern
As a kiwi on Africa … I have been proud of PM Jacinda and her Govt… at the same time disgusted by the abuse and hatred from sectors. I used to believe we had a great country, I am not so sure anymore!!
And the problem is western and US culture without a doubt
@colecameron
The amount of negative comments here is mind boggling and so sad … I was locked out with the Pandemic and still to return but with the small minded, hateful and yes misogynist attitude now alive and in the open .. why would one return???
@1NewsNZ
I’ve never been so ashamed to say I’m a New Zealander… I protested the Vietnam War and I’ll protest and whatever it takes to get Aotearoa out of this war, 5 Eyes and any military pact with the USA..
plus do whatever I can to rid us of this Govt and its American planted leader
A few weeks back an amazing humanitarian journalist
@sallyhayd
I met in Gulu, Uganda posted about her book, I posted I was outa funds to buy, this unknown guy Anthony of Dublin offers to buy it for me!! After relocating half way around the world it arrived today!! Thank you 🙏🏾
@DrFrascatore
@TeAkaWhaiOra
This breaks my heart as a kiwi living in Africa I was so proud of the direction Aotearoa was heading in embracing and developing Māori/traditional culture/ methods… the western ways/colonialism is destroying the planet and its people… we cannot let this progress be stolen back
@ClintVSmith
Dear me .. and here am I stuck with a family in Gulu, Uganda .. fares too high to get home .. making the most of it all helping people on poverty every day and not complaining but feeling good from making a difference!! Rosie can you fundraise to get us home please 😂😂😂😂
@davemacpherson7
This is so good to hear and hope it translates into a left Government.. I don’t get to vote as out of country too long but returning next month after 7 years and already planning escape if right wing Govt elected.. it won’t be my country!!
@JacquiMckenzie6
Sorry for the demise of your now friend.. our western way of life builds walls between each other physically and spiritually… I’m living in Gulu, Uganda and love the openness of a village like society.. we each have our lives but we have no fences and live as communities..
@mhdksafa
Such a great looking couple .. may you have an amazing life together!!
Wishing you the very best from Mirriam and Geoff in Gulu, Uganda 🇺🇬 Celebrating our humanity with all our differences - Arohanui 💛💛
Some days life is a dream … here am I just arrived at Te Got Awere in Odek, Omoro District, Northern Uganda… it is 36°. behind is the hut we built in 2017 and on the mat is my Acoli partner Auma Alice Mirriam with Opiyo one of our almost 5 twin boys. Pinching myself at 67 yrs
The last days of 2023 our family have fled parted Gulu, Northern Uganda for
#MurchisonFalls
National Park then on to Entebbe flying to Addis, Singapore to end the year in Auckland before starting 2024 in
#Wairarapa
. New Year, New Country, New Life!!
@jumpthesharky
@winstonpeters
You think National didn’t change the fabric of NZ with its immigration and fiscal policies?? That is why the country is divided now … few rich, while lot if wannabes and very many poor and unable to get out of it …
We can’t feed everyone but this evening we had our boys with five other kids for supper.. three neighbours who have no food, Elvis we just treated for malaria - a runaway and Sheila we are looking for support with education - sent to us from a village!! The kids cooked
X friends ... amazing effort to get us to Aotearoa by
@HelenClarkNZ
+ many others when stuck without income for 4 years with the Pandemic until we could arrange documents for 5 Ugandans + travel! MFAT loaned money to live and fly your support is welcomed
@Sage62071599
@NZedAUS
Helen Clark, a labour leader whose Govt produced stability, excellent results and initiatives.. would tell you of the barriers she crossed and still does. Jenny Shipley just a short term
@puppet
of that system - her results .. mmmm
Champion for People with Albinism, multitalented
@larubirobert
met up with me to deliver sunscreen from
@SNUPA
for the next skin clinic in Gulu... Pat has ridden on a bodaboda to deliver during the lockdown!!
#hero
#iaad
#June13
@RichardBurgon
As a kiwi and living in Uganda, look where Uganda is on the list, I feel sorry for you people ... but HTF did you let your system allow such a result as BJ and Brexit pass?? You need at total overhaul either in the Nz or Ug direction. I know my pick haha
@andrewkabuura
Wonderful.. such a great result!! Congratulations to all of the family especially Nnalongo for a job well done - wishing you all long lives filled with amazing adventures and happy days
The best from a Ssalongo and Nnalongo Opiyo and Ocen in Gulu
Today is International
#DayOfTheGirl
!
When girls are able to
👧 make decisions
👧🏿 stay in school
👧🏽 prevent pregnancies
👧🏻 access health services equally,
they can transform their future, and be the power of change.
👉
@chrisluxonmp
The economy is doing well, the primary sector you are talking of are destructive and causing extinction - there’s and yours!! You’re seriously supporting our biggest problem? Seriously again, dairy is a poor producer of protein and we are not cows - milk is a cause of poor health
What a woman. What a leader. Dignity, courage and grace personified. Her impact on the world stage will be felt for years to come. Sad to see Jacinda Ardern go, but pleased to see it happen on her own terms 🖤 | Prints/tees:
@jacindaardern
Hawaii has the lowest gun death rate in the country — Hawaii also requires permits with a mandatory 14 day waiting period, an age requirement of being 21 to buy a gun, and bans on assault weapons and magazines with more than 10 rounds.
@SunflowerBlue5
No one is brainwashing, it is a movement whose time has come. Just as a bird leaves the nest.
As a linguist maybe you could try Te Reo Māori to add to your list of foreign languages.
@Alinasu33
@jacindaardern
Thanks for sharing your experience, strength and hope … NZ has a very intolerant sector… I am amazed here in Gulu, Uganda.. my neighbours/landlords are Muslims and we are great friends .. I learn much from them about patience, understanding and charity!! With love from Gulu 2 U
@joshuacheptege1
Congratulations to you Joshua on your WR and Jacob on your record, you both have much more to come. As a kiwi I have an interest in seeing runners do well and in Uganda there is so much potential here with you two are leading the way!!
@ErinWilliams5
@fuzzberg
@SuzanneRobins1
As a kiwi living in Uganda .. there is nothing new about needing vaccines. No yellow fever vaccine, no entry to Uganda by anyone!! No one complains... rules are rules...
Climate emergency is here. Flash floods in Malawi has affected nearly 923,000 people causing them to leave their homes and lose possessions. The time for climate action is now not tomorrow.
I’m not sure the west understand their lack of equitable outlook nor the rest of the world the consequences of that.
Here in Uganda it is totally disrupted education, teen pregnancies and marriages, rape, defilement, incest, alcohol misuse, domestic violence all peaking -disaster
Inequitable vaccine rollout is huge barrier to curbing
#COVID19
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@lewis_goodall
sets out tragically low figures in many developing countries. With more global cooperation, scaled up vaccine manufacturing, & application of proven public health measures, the pandemic can be curbed.
@chrisluxonmp
First it isn’t your Government just as the airline wasn’t yours!! A sense of humility and reality might help the country… oh those qualities are taken by the current leader already😂😂😂
@cjsbishop
Wonderful to have a safe birth in a country that cares!! The best to all of you!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿. BTW, the boy is ‘our son’ not ‘my son’. Apology due to all mothers 😉😥
@sootytweet
Look it’s easy .. just pack up your bags and move to a native English speaking country I.e. England. This is a Polynesian country where a Polynesian language is appropriate
@lottecode
@farmgeek
Wow ... that is a change and a total reflection on how f****** up NZ is with it’s alcohol obsession.. might be better as a dope shop then
@BraydenCreation
Hanging out in Gulu, Northern Uganda with twin boys, four years old. There names are Opiyo who features and Ocen, traditional names for boy twins with Opiyo always the first born. So they are Kiwi/Acoli - all on my phone
@BraydenCreation
Friday I was traveling pillion on a bodaboda to visit a young SGBV survivor in a rural area … it looked like rain ahead, snappd from the motorcycle!! It did rain, we sheltered in a health centre for 30mins then continued!! Today its 36°
I wrote this in 2022:
Whose lives matter?
Ask Syrians, Palestinians, Yemenis, and so many others whose countries have been wrecked by war and occupation
@Jennifercarryer
I have been out of NZ almost 7 years.. the pandemic has afflicted every country but seemingly the biggest affect has been on the minds of kiwis … NZ is doing very well thank you, let the critics leave for the UK and enjoy life as they want it…
@TracyWesterman
@crikey_news
So interesting.. I’m a kiwi who endured PTSD .. living in Gulu, Northern Iganda where the people suffer PTSD after 20 years of rebellion that resulted in their removal from their land to IDP Camps for ‘their own protection’ … your work resonates well with the situation here. 1/
@we_dollar
@jacindaardern
Powerful leadership indeed.. I believe many feel intimidated that a Kiwi accented long haired woman can be such.. it challenges their prejudices
Special start to the afternoon in Gulu with four COVID Nurses - Jane, Roselyn, Margaret and George, a
@WHOUganda
representative Dr Mawanda and myself participating in a
@TheIndPanel
webinar with
@HelenClarkNZ
and others .. great to hear those on the ground being heard.
@AttoGladys
You are amazing Dr Gladys, your heart is so big!!
Friends .. support this young man through Dr Atto and her team… they will get the job done for sure!! ✅✅