Fieldnotes: Blogging on UNICEF's child survival work in the field

Our colleague Abigail is on a field visit in Nicaragua. She's sending in posts as she's able. Here's her first.

Hello, my name is Abigail Quesinberry and I work in the communications department of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF in New York. For the next two weeks I’ll be traveling in Nicaragua with a camera crew. We will be collecting stories and photographs from the field about all the great work UNICEF is doing there.

I arrived in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, at night. At the airport, outside of town, I met up with Kira Kay, a producer we hired to work with us on the trip. We took a taxi to our hotel and then went straight to bed because it was late, and we have a lot of work ahead of us.

Nicaragua is beautiful. It’s hot, but not humid, and everywhere I look there are incredible looking plants and flowers. We took a taxi to the UNICEF office to meet our translator and the rest of our UNICEF colleagues. Later today, we will head to a village called Teustepe, located a few hours northwest of Managua, in the region of Boaco, where UNICEF recently installed a well and a water pump to give the families in the village access to clean water. The meeting is about to start, so I’m signing off for now. I hope to report on our first visit later tonight.