Author: tyfairclough
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Happy New International Year of the Forests
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests. The Amazon Rain Forest Basin is the home to our largest rainforest on Earth. It represents over half of the planets remaining rainforests. The basin is roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States. It covers some 40% of the South…
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An Epic Resolution for 2011
I blame Toby Marks for this, having rediscovered his 1995 album Last Train to Lhasa written to highlight the atrocities [still] going on in the planet’s heart and soul, Tibet. The video is explicit in its content having been banned in the days before we invented social media and YouTube as it contains scenes of…
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Merry Christmas to All
My dear friends Charles and Prisca have managed to send photos of the wonderful donations made by volunteers Leanne, her husband James & their daughter, Chinika. The family were meant to volunteer with us back in May but delays and circumstances meant they couldn’t. Leanne had been very busy fundraising to bring items with them…
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Thank You TED.com for letting Julian Assange be heard
In light of todays shameful arrest of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, I wanted to share this – and hope that no shameful authorities decide to remove the content from TED’s site (which wouldn’t surprise me!) ..if only for what he’s single-handedly accomplished for Kenya please watch and share this but, in my honest opinion,…
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Mubarikiwe !!!
I just want to Congratulate Amanda (Director of the Tumaini Centre) and George on the perfect and natural birth of their beautiful daughter Malaika (mal-eye-ka) Joy Kalendi at 11:45 today. Mother and baby are doing very well and Amanda’s now off for a well earned bath and sleep. I love the aura around new babies, its…