April 18, 2013

Wishlist

Hannah joins the Sadili Oval Academy in Lang’ata next month, on the edge of the Kibera slum area of Nairobi. Their latest newsletter is here highlighting all the incredible work they do, under the leadership of the fabulous Liz…

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March 5, 2013

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…

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February 11, 2013

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…

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December 1, 2012

Challenge emigration and the power of music

Travel2Change have launched their latest challenge – click the infographic for further details: Facebook hosted contest The Challenge is NOT limited to US citizens and anyone can submit an idea to win $500 towards a trip with AVIF to…

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November 2, 2012

Kids & AI

Taken from Kurzweil AI, a truly amazing story: Given tablets but no teachers, Ethiopian children teach themselves October 29, 2012 (Credit: OLPC) Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction….

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