Demi Tour of the World

Collecting condoms can look odd for some. The question most of the people ask is : “how can you be sure that people over there will use them” adding “and recycle them for some other use ?” if they’ve just started hearing about sustainable development and eco-tourism.

My frst idea was to bring them over Chad as the whole sub-saharan area is fighting against HIV. We can get so many for free here why not over there, right now i’ve got already 139 items. And i’ll give them to specific organisations dealing with AIDS and its prevention. UNAIDS is one them. They’ll be able to spread the condoms where it is the most useful (hotels, military camp, borders…).

Now will it be Chad ? i’m not sure yet, i should know in a week time, after my letter of grievance’s consequence. Otherwise It will be Nepalese who’ll benefit from my luggages content.

unaids.org:
The first AIDS case in Nepal was reported in 1988. Until the late 1990s, Nepal was classified as having a low-level epidemic. However, since 1997, HIV infection has been increasing alarmingly among injecting drug users and female sex workers. By March 2004, 715 AIDS cases and 191 deaths have been reported in Nepal, with a male female ratio of 2.4:1. By December 2003 an estimated number of 40,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in the country with a national adult prevalence of approximately by 0.3%. Nepal is currently classified as a country experiencing concentrated epidemic, particularly among injecting drug users female sex workers. HIV prevalence among female sex workers increased from 0.7% in 1992 to 17% in 2002. Among IDUs, HIV prevalence reached 50% in 2002. Trends show that in the western and mid-western sentinel sites, HIV among STD patients has been showing a steady increase from less than 1% in 1992 to 3% in 2001. In the eastern and central regions, however, the prevalence among STD patients remains less than 0.5%. Several vulnerability factors exist that can likely worsen the epidemic. These include: high rate of male migration, prostitution, poverty, low socio-economic status of women, and illicit drug trafficking. Additionally, a large numbers of young Nepalese girls are recruited as sex workers to Indian cities, and large numbers of young Nepalese males working in India frequent female sex workers there and within Nepal. Thus, in addition to the increasing number of HIV infections occurring among persons with high HIV-risk behaviours in Nepal, there are also increasing numbers of Nepalese female sex workers and young male Nepalese workers who have bee infected with HIV in India, and who have or will be returning to Nepal.

http://www.unaids.org/en/Regions_Countries/Countries/nepal.asp for more

Hey Again,

For my first travel I used to work with the seasons. Then a trip project over europe made me work for ten month. And now I nearly ended my working period of two years. It is all about patience and knowing what I need.

I worked in restaurants for lebaneses, israelians, irish, french, english from Corsica to UK.

It is about cycles, recovering from travelling and preparing an other one. But this time my boss wants to play the rules for himself and is a Sarkozy fan. This man’s sentence is “I don’t do social conscience” when we talked about proportional rent/wages. London is a very expensive place to live, the second or third in the world. There is Tokyo before. This man said his truth : that he can’t give a contract before six month, that the paid holidays are inclusive without notifying, that half an hour break per shift is legal and unpaid. Plus the hours between the staff are inequal, but hours can be forgotten on the payslip. 

But when i told him all that he just felt under attack and even threaten me with words as “i’ll crash you down if we go to court”… i didn’t say i wanted to ! So today i passed by a social service to be sure of all my rights in details. He’s got only one more chance before a trial. The man is cross, grieving me i told he’s a liar but all he thinks is that his employees owe him everything. But even in UK the social rights are not that dead.

What i want are my full rights applied for all the staff that’s all. And i would like to go travelling, but some men need to be tought, not by me but by Justice.

So while waiting his answer to my letter of grievance, i have to apologize to you for the delays in the travel part and even the changes of my project. If trial I’ll have to delay the travel, to rethink it, may be to start from Nepal in 6 month, or even a year to keep the departure to Chad… this future is not in my hands for now.

Not anybody knows where Chad is. You, you’re on internet you can go to www.multimap.com for example, you can go to www.wikipedia.com or you’ve got an Atlas not far and open it.

When I was in College i’ve made a friend who was arriving from this country. Mandela was his hero, mine was Mahatma Gandhi. they still are. Now he wants to help his village and its children through a more supportive scholarship with the building of a dormitory.

Oil was found in Chad in 2003. The government and the world bank signed a new kind of agreement in Africa saying part of the oil’s profit of the country will be saved for social and education purpose. But Africa’s political situation is as unsustainable as sustainability is fashion in Europe… and we can say the leaders try very hard and with very much expenses to keep it as it is. So the savings are already spent in regards of national security to fight rebellious activities (if you haven’t been on any site or atlas, the west of the country host Darfur Refugees ) for more : http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/africa.html

Chad is big enough to able me to be far from this. there is no disruption at all of the planes schedule. So i’ll go to my friend’s village and would like to see more of the older ever found proto-human baptised Toumai. I like to start like that.

It will be my first step of a travel which will lead me to Kathmandu via a legendary road. This road passes by Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan. Wonderful countries sometimes stroke by war. So why ? Just that the thought of unsafe roads after world wars and cold war drive me crazy. I want to go to India and Nepal through other countries like done Marco Polo and some others. If it was about local barbarians, gangs and what ever, fine ! but as West is proud of his many years of peace in its borders i’m not really about my country and all others making money with those “local” wars, oh sorry sustainable strategy involvement. That freaks me out !!! I ‘ve got a calm, quiet dream : walking, hitch-hiking, camel riding, cycling, coach passenger sometimes, sleeping away from hotel as often as possible, merging with other worlds. But some are not bother keeping quiet, they go shooting, they go firing, bombing. And it is so expensive in time and energy, they need to sustain it. In hatred matter the opponent team is easy to make react with the same kind of energy.

In my inner world borders others than oceans and mountains, even money, is quite hard to concieve. In facts borders for example are more symbols than real. It is our believe in them which make them real. Language/communication is enough as a border. For me walking the borders erase them as long as they are not too much of a stronghold.