Category: Blog
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Mercy Home Report
Rhiannon, one of our volunteers from earlier this year has just written a fantastic report on the Mercy Home; her expereinces and lessons volunteering in Kenya.You can read it online at DocStoc here. There are valuable lessons to come from the report so try to read it.Rhi’s FB photos are also here if you’re “on…
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Paper making with the Kenyans in Yorkshire
Sunday 21 June, Fathers Day in the UK, welcomed the 3 Head Teachers from the Mida, Mbarackachembe & Mzizima Primary Schools in Kenya, East Africa for a 10 day visit. Today I had the pleasure of being hosted by Nidderdale High School with Nicholas, Kanunda and Sirus. We were there to learn some of the…
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Gearing up
Time for planning and time for preparing. I’m about to ride off on a charity event for 7 days so wanted to touch base to remind everyone about arrivals in Nairobi. Please confirm flight arrivals. We’ve changed venue for the orientation. Everyone will be gathering at Nairobi’s International Youth Hostel. You can book your own…
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Fundraiser for AVIF with the Foundation for Social Improvement Small Charities Car Draw
FSI have created a brilliant new paper or virtual £2 draw fundraiser to win a fabulous Fiat 500. Tickets go on sale on Saturday June 6th online at our Everyclick site where you may also want to sign up to using Everyclick.com as your search engine to raise money for us at the same time.…
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Tour d’Afrique in pictures from Simon Gardner
Simon’s back, rested and put together all his photos onto Flickr of the amazing Cairo to CapeTown Tour d’Afrique 2009 journey by bicycle. His full blog is here. Simon incredibly fundraised for AVIF, enough to cover another years secondary education for Pius and Norbert, 2 Yala boys, who he met when riding through Kenya March…