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Diary of a volunteer

I have met two English guys on stay in Fiji. They said to me that they taught the small children in Africa. I got so interesting in and one year after I decide to do it. It was not so easy to find some organization to go with. Almost all organizations take some fees. I think that is so crazy. I want to help with children in Africa and I must pay for it?! Fortunately I found the small organization

May 25, 2011 | 2:05 AM Comments  0 comments

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When you tuck yourself into bed tonight ....

.. take a moment - not for guilt - but just to consider whether you can make a difference to someone.I've often thought how unfair it is to support one family and not the other but we have a special link with Christine and her family, the cook at the Tumaini Academy, set up by Canadian Amanda Flanagan. Christine is sole carer to her own 3 children and 4 orphaned grandchildren. She lost her

May 23, 2011 | 11:05 AM Comments  0 comments

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Texting water to Enkito

"Farmers are struggling after one of the hottest and driest months recorded have left entire crops parched and failed".
This is NORTH YORKSHIRE, near Wetherby.Thousands of miles away in Enkito, Amboseli, SW Kenya, the ground is always parched. When the rains finally do arrive the ground soaks up as much as it can and then surface water washes away most of the remaining fertile topsoil, leaving

May 11, 2011 | 6:05 AM Comments  0 comments

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Collaboration fun and results

Our latest volunteer, Wayne, has arrived safe and is settling in with Michael in Naivasha after a brief stay in Nairobi last Friday night to watch the team Michael coaches win at the city stadium, beating the top of the Premier League 2-0 !! After an incredible trip through the stunning southern Rift valley near Mai Mahiu town, Wayne will be visiting with youth in Gilgil presenting the equipment

April 14, 2011 | 12:04 PM Comments  0 comments

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Recycling plastics - empowering youth

I just got news via Facebook from Justin Sekiguchi of Up with Hope of the successful negotiations they've made with the Staken Recycling Company in Nairobi. Staken, a kenyan company, are actually collecting Justin's teams' hard-laboured collections of discarded plastics and turning them into coat hangers.This is particularly brilliant for us because we're trying to complete a business plan along

March 26, 2011 | 4:03 AM Comments  0 comments

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