Author: tyfairclough

I’d like to introduce Amanda, pictured here with Diana. (Click the photo gain access to the FB album for more photos). Amanda is director of the Tumaini Centre and the Vision Centre in Khalaba, a neighboring village community in the Matungu District of Kenya, Western Province. The nearest town is MUMIAS and is only a…

I’d like to thank Simon for his amazing upcoming contribution, after he cycles from Cairo to Capetown with Tour d’Afrique. Funds raised will go to the Tour’s own foundation as well as to AVIF. Read on about the amazing adventure Simon has ahead of him. Note: AVIF’s own cic. KO2 can offer a slightly less…

I got a call from a businessman in Ghana earlier. He’d found me through the wonderful Business in Development Network. He told me people were facing very serious hydro power crises, as the water levels in their dams are getting very, very low. Same as Kenya, in the rural areas their sole source of fire…