Yellow Brick Road

It is awesome (if occasionally frustrating) to be subjecting the senses to a serious download again. For the next three months I'm on an island called Nias off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. The island was hit by the Tsunami in late 2004 and then a large earthquake in 2005. Since then, thanks mainly to NGO's some big steps have been made towards rectifying the damage and initiating sustainable development for the people of Nias. Through EWB UK (www.ewb-uk.org) I am volunteering for an NGO called ACTED (www.acted.org) and will be working on a road (see the photo) in a place called Moro'o (where government investment has apparently been minimal at best). This blog is a chance to tell a few of the stories and begin to answer the question that its title poses . . .