Category: Blog
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Farewell from Zoe & Marie
[written by Marie] Hi to all you wonderful people! Just a quick email, as after 3 hours sleep, a slippery walk through the mud with too much luggage, red teary eyes and a heavy heart we said goodbye to all those beautiful young ladies at Mercy home.Yesterday they had a public holiday so as they…
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Farewells from Maseno
….this will be my last ‘volunteering’ update, at least for awhile. Ireally hope one day to be back, and I would recommend this to anyonewho has ever wanted to come and help. It’s an amazing experience,really difficult but most definitely worthwhile. Seeing life here justmakes me realise how lucky I am. …. read more from…
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Help from REACH
We would like to express our thanks and admiration for this wonderful project. The Reach organisationwas founded in 1979 by businessman Nick Crace, who saw that there werefew opportunities for retired professionals and managers to use theskills and experience they had built up over many years to helpworthwhile causes. REACH has grown considerably since ..…
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Mentoring & help towards social enterprise
Key Fund Yorkshire has offered to provide AVIF with one free delegate entry to the FOOTSEY 100 event, York Racecourse, October 18 2007, and A GRANT OF £200. Here I will be given the unique opportunity to attend one to one surgeries with industry professionals on topics such as Finance, Marketing, Accounting Systems, Legal Advice…
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Harnessing Africa’s People & Animal Power
Many thanks to AfriGadget for promoting this. The HAPV (Advertised as HAPPY) from Pretoria, South Africa-based Wheel & Water is a twist on the ‘horse and buggy’ mode of transportation. Assisted by MACHETE, a buggy is fitted with a solar panel that charges a 12 volt battery under the driver’s seat & the “HAPPY” becomes…