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We took the car and drove for 2 hours outside Lomé. Heading to the mountains and the waterfalls of Togo, in the region of Kpallime. The kids were excited, my parents were eager to discover outside the capital but I was quickly heavy-hearted when the rural views started filling the car window. For all the years I have been living in West Africa...seeing poverty in the villages still has the same impact on me that it had that first day I put one foot in Benin to visit Boyfriend Husband years back. Poverty of everything. Water, electricity, connectivity, food scarcity. The distance between the have's (I) and have nots scarring your heart. I am not the only one feeling that way, my team in Togo spent the week in Northern Togo (up to Kara) visiting projects and they have all came back in a state of shock and incredulity. The have nots are so many, so clearly lacking everything. They even lack the rain, so venerated in these lands, making Togo extremely dry this time of the year, the exp...

Once upon a time there was a merigoesaround wonderwoman who travelled the world as hungry as a wolf. Well advised by her boyfriend-husband at the time, who today is her husband, she started blogging. Blogging was the 'it' thing to do at the time. No Twitter, no LinkedIn during those days. She blogged about her thoughts, ruminations, impressions on things, her tribulations.... Always a bit worried whether she was opening her heart too much. Not always knowing what she would write about. And then she stopped blogging, and blogs themselves became uncool. But 2023 is the year we all back to our keyboards to write blogs says Lilah Raptopoulos, my favorite journalist. And I think so too. A lot has happened since my last blog. A lot as in I have now 2 children and I have moved to two new countries since. But I hope that not a lot of that wonderwoman has changed and that I am still hungry for adventure.