Bryn and Helena have arrived and settled in to their 2 month placement in Kenya. They will be assisting the Ingrid Education Centre and then moving upcountry to stay with the Tumaini community in western province close to Mumias helping the work of Amanda Flanagan.
They were also joined yesterday by 2 Facebook friends and volunteers for an australian youth sports organisation that provides a "

Last Summer Philip (centre of pic), a PE teacher at Catcote School in Hartlepool, volunteered in Naivaisha, along with colleague, Andrew (right), delivering football coaching sessions and assisting with a local man's dream to create a football academy for the street kids.

They made strong links with the coaches over there, including their FIFA-trained local host, Michael. All three see

Thanks to the generosity of certain bikers [you know who you are] and the awesome attitude and proactive Jedi force within director Douglas, "now free and can breath after two days busy working on the Shamba planting and fencing" we can all see the results.





Douglas tells me "Now the Shamba is secure and free from cattle getting access ....It took ten men to fence the shamba today and 13

The Mwelu Foundation is a self-help group operating in the Mathare Valley slum of Nairobi, founded by born-and-raised Mathare resident Julius Mwelu. Julius became involved with Lana Wong's Shootback Project at the age of 12, a well-funded project teaching photographic skills to children in the slum. Through photography Julius has managed to educate countless people around the world about what

Happy New Year to you all and what a fabulous idea already virally hitting the internet!
Resembling a baby-sized sleeping bag, crucially, the "Embrace" includes a warming device that can be removed and heated in a pan of water over a wood fire in only a few minutes. Once charged, the device "will keep the baby at a constant 37C (98F) for more than four hours".




Incredibly the product isn't