Author: tyfairclough
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Shootback in Mathare Valley
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. Julius’ success led to him becoming a professional UN…
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Our office in-world at SecondLife
AVIF are one of many non profits in SecondLife (SL) the Internet’s largest user-created, 3D virtual world community!! We have an office there which anyone anywhere can visit no matter where in the world they are, instantly. Its a work in progress and many thanks to Kali for the help with scripting/ building! : “Promoting…
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Virtual reality does good
Thanks to Summer volunteer, Charlotte, we’ve had a wonderful article published about our work by Catherine Scott of YPN. Ignoring all the embarrassing “about me” stuff, I’d like to thank everyone else involved in all our incredible achievements of 2009: Securing Ingrid‘s future; fitting the water tank and building the new classroom, not to mention…
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More Christmas gifts for Kenya
More Christmas gifts have been received! An incredible £400 has been raised largely through a raffle event that Katherine and Lydia (friends of Zoe) ran at the Putney Rotary Christmas Dinner earlier this month. Some great prizes were donated from companies like Penguin books and Coty perfume and makeup. The rotarians were very generous with…
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Last day of Hope in Copenhagen
Its the last day of hope in Copenhagen today for the Climate Change Summit [link to One climate’s LIVE constant video coverage]. With every Head of State in the World deciding our future way of living I wanted to share this with you. Please pass it on to everyone you know … {jcomments on}