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Lisbon
We rolled onto Lisbon and as we got off the bus on Wednesday morning the first thing to notice...blazing sun and a warm breeze. And apparently it's snowing in England?!
In Lisbon I was working with a Portuguese development organisation called Oikos, which is part of GCAP. And sure enough, at 5pm, Joana and her team were waiting outside the venue. Unfortunately I was at the other side setting up the stand, and my radio battery had run out, so it was a little while before I got the message to go outside and meet them - the first of an evening of delays!
Once inside, we got fully prepared and after another of my (tedious) briefings, we were ready. Unfortunately, whoever designed the venue didn't have Oxfam campaigners in mind! It was a beautiful building (the same venue as had hosted the MTV Awards earlier in the tour, and resembling the upturned hull of some huge ship, all built out of beautiful wood) but access from the concourse (where our stand was) to the floor (where most of the punters were) was via a staff lift only. And the security team in Lisbon being like all other security teams I've witnessed on this tour, the only way my volunteers could use this lift was if I accommpanied them.
Cue a frustrating evening of running back and forth from stand to floor delivering anything from more action cards, pens, temporary tattoos and bottles of water to whole sections of the volunteer team. It's never easy is it?! In spite of this, the evening went really well, and once again a 'non-Oxfam' country took me by surprise and produced a whole trolley-load of completed action cards...somewhere around the 1,850 mark! Amazing.
posted at 9:26 AM
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