Christmas Greetings from sunny South Sudan!
by Lindsay While many of you are wrapped up, sipping mulled wine and lighting candles, we are entering the dry and dusty season in Juba where temperatures brush up to 40 ᵒ during the day. We have tried our best to bring the spirit of Christmas to our base in Juba, with endless fairy lights and a lot of fake fir-tree tinsel, and carols can be heard being hummed through offices. But it does feel like a unique and special Christmas – far away from the ‘normal’ presents, office parties and travelling to see family. It is a bit of a gift to be experiencing wildly different circumstances and the same Christmas story – reimagining what has been Anglicised, and what remains throughout cultures and history. Last week, we celebrated our annual Christmas conference for all Medair staff based in a Juba, and a handful travelling in from various field locations. We booked out the conference room of a very swish, new hotel in Juba and had a jolly good time thanks to the Games Team who organised a