Author: tyfairclough

  • Amani Upendo Umoja

    Apart from some isolated incidents which I won’t acknowledge here I’m so happy Kenya held their head up high, despite admin problems and very long queues. Uchaguzi continues to feed clear data to us via the link here and from the IEPC site below.  Please keep communicating via text (SMS) message to 3002 Email: reports.uchaguzi@gmail.com or via Twitter with the…

  • Counselling Friends of AVIF

    Part of WebHealer’s support for AVIF is to help raise awareness of the good work they carry out, and this includes sharing their stories with WebHealer clients. A large section of WebHealer’s clients are counsellors, many of whom have been very supportive of other charitable activities with which WebHealer have been involved over the years…

  • Happy New Tibetan Year 2140

    Happy New Tibetan Year 2140

    Today is the most important day of the year for Tibetans; Losar the start of the New Year 2140 “Tashi-de-leh!!” On the first day of New Year, Tibetans get up very early, take a bath with starwater (water left out overnight to be “cleansed by starlight”). They wear new clothes and worship the gods in their…

  • WebHealer – Friends of AVIF

    We’ve had a new development in our relationship with WebHealer, who recently gave their financial and technical support to AVIF.  WebHealer run websites for thousands of small businesses, and provide assistance to quite a few charities and social enterprises as well as AVIF. WebHealer have offered to raise awareness of AVIFs activities to their clients,…

  • WebHealer Support

    In recognition of AVIF’s contribution to education in Africa, we are pleased to announce that WebHealer have agreed to provide financial and technical support to AVIF. WebHealer have been aware of AVIF’s operations for a number of years, and have provided advice and feedback on an ad hoc basis, however in 2013, they decided to…