APRO shake-down
So, as you all may recall, when I first applied for a job, it was with the Human Rights Association for the Assistance of Prisoners (HRAAP). But I went to the HRAAP office on the first day of work, and was transferred over here, to the Arab Penal Reform Organization (APRO), which is essentially the same organization, but for the Arab region, instead of just Egypt. Additionally, the organizations are run by the same man, Mr Zarea, and seem to have more or less the same staff, so the division really seems to be one of physical location only.
Anyhow, something very strange seems to have happened ... APRO has much less to do than HRAAP at the moment, and so all of our staff has been transferred back to the HRAAP office. Osman made a comment a couple of days ago that he needed my email, because he'd like to be in touch once he goes to the other office, which will be "very soon." And then today, Adel told me I needed to call him before I left the country. Reham, I haven't seen for a number of days. Finally, I asked Ghada, and she told me that everyone was moved/moving back to HRAAP except for her, Atef, the tea boy and maintanence guy, and, as far as we can tell, me.
Huh. SO all of the human rights employees are moving (Ghada is the accountant), and I'm not ... which means that, not only do I not have work to do, but I don't even have access to people so that I can push my way into their projects. I'm a bit perplexed by the entire situation, but Mr Zarea has just left for Yemen for ten days, and I suspect I'll have to wait until he returns to get it all figured out. Clearly, I can still do editing and stuff - it just needs to be emailed to me, instead of transferred over the network - but I'm a bit concerned. The work I was doing was lame enough, but at least there was work!
On the plus side, Ghada and I get along very well, and today she spent an hour or two teaching me the alphabet. I've decided that I'll just give myself different work to do, and if don't come out of the summer with a better knowledge of human rights NGO work, at least I'll have better knowledge of Arabic!
Anyhow, something very strange seems to have happened ... APRO has much less to do than HRAAP at the moment, and so all of our staff has been transferred back to the HRAAP office. Osman made a comment a couple of days ago that he needed my email, because he'd like to be in touch once he goes to the other office, which will be "very soon." And then today, Adel told me I needed to call him before I left the country. Reham, I haven't seen for a number of days. Finally, I asked Ghada, and she told me that everyone was moved/moving back to HRAAP except for her, Atef, the tea boy and maintanence guy, and, as far as we can tell, me.
Huh. SO all of the human rights employees are moving (Ghada is the accountant), and I'm not ... which means that, not only do I not have work to do, but I don't even have access to people so that I can push my way into their projects. I'm a bit perplexed by the entire situation, but Mr Zarea has just left for Yemen for ten days, and I suspect I'll have to wait until he returns to get it all figured out. Clearly, I can still do editing and stuff - it just needs to be emailed to me, instead of transferred over the network - but I'm a bit concerned. The work I was doing was lame enough, but at least there was work!
On the plus side, Ghada and I get along very well, and today she spent an hour or two teaching me the alphabet. I've decided that I'll just give myself different work to do, and if don't come out of the summer with a better knowledge of human rights NGO work, at least I'll have better knowledge of Arabic!
posted by Teale at 12:10 PM
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