Andreas Tsukalas
On assignment as an architect in Somaliland
Name
Andreas Tsukalas
Age
50 years old
Profession
Architect
Country of operation
Somaliland
Duration of mission
12 months so far
My everyday life in the project
My everyday life in the project is very diverse and includes many major tasks and duties – plus a thousand little things. Besides planning and coordinating construction activities, I take care of coordination and contacts with the authorities as well as logistics in the project.
My spare time at the project:
In my free time I read a lot, took walks in the neighborhood, and communicated extensively with home.
I particularly apreciated:
The country is very impressive in its own way. The climate and the different landscape have a special charm and quickly imprint themselves on you. It was very exciting to Meet many new people and to live and work in a culture that was foreign to us.
I especcially missed:
My family.
My plans for the future:
Continue to work for good causes.
My best memories of my time on the project:
The first impressions left a particularly strong impression on me. You never forget the atmosphere and smells when you arrive at a new project.
Team members in portrait
Thorsten Kirsch works as a nurse for Cap Anamur in Somaliland. His most important piece of luggage for the trip: His guitar. Being involved in areas where his strengths lie and having an incredible number of opportunities for further training - Thorsten has taken a lot away for himself from his assignment.
Pediatric nurse Simone Ross had great experiences in both Sierra Leone and Uganda. Working in the emergency room, in the infant and pediatric wards, training local staff, organizing materials for the laboratory - the varied and diverse tasks were what she appreciated most about her work in the project.
As project coordinator, Shabbir Ahmed takes care of the health care facilities in Bangladesh with which Cap Anamur has cooperation agreements.
Midwife Sarah Schütz worked for six months in the Central African Republic at our hospital in Bossembélé. There she helped deliver many children including twins and premature babies.
Nurse Nele Grapentin's first mission took her to Uganda, but it is by no means to be her last mission for Cap Anamur. The curiosity of the children, the incredible strength of the Ugandan women and such a diverse country - when Nele Grapentin talks about her mission, she quickly goes into raptures.
Mathias Voss, a nurse, spent more than a year working in our hospital in Sudan. His duties included ward, emergency room or maternal-child clinic rounds and continuing education for local staff members.
Above all, the strong women impressed nurse Karina Busemann in Somaliland. If she had to list all the fond memories she has of her time on the project, it would probably make an entire book. The laughing children will remain in her memory for a long time.
Pediatrician Dorothea Kumpf was in Somalia for Cap Anamur. For six months, the young woman worked in a hospital in Somalialand, an area in the north of the country. Especially the open nature of the population remained in her lasting memory.
The nurse Anika Wentz talks about her 6 month assignment in our hospital in the Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. There, she experienced many things that impress her to this day.
Andreas Tsukalas works as an architect for Cap Anamur in Somaliland. This is already his sixth deployment.
Afghan-born Faisal Haidari works as a project coordinator for Cap Anamur in Afghanistan. Since 2001, the Afghan, of Tajik descent, has been taking care of the progress of Cap Anamur projects in troubled Afghanistan.