Category: Blog
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Solar cooking for the Mercy home girls
Texts now sent to John Amayo, supervisor of the Kadibo solarcooking project close to Mercy Home & Alison Curtis of SHEP (SolarHealth & Education Programme). Hopefully we can arrange for Tetra Pak to donatethe reflective material to make the cookers so the womens group and the girls at Mercy Home also can learn to make…
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More news from Zoe in Maseno
More photos and updates from Zoe in Mercy Home … Technorati Tags: volunteer kenya africa poverty orphan Powered by ScribeFire.
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Last day of school…….:(
[Update from Marie in Uganda / Kenya] Hello once again! I’ve been a little slack in writing, time is just flying by….. a little news on whats been happening- We arrived back in Kenya last Saturday night, with a new drum for the girls – they usually use water containers, they were so thrilled,…
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Best Practice ? Pause for thought !
[from NetworkLearning.Org] Is building an orphanage Good Practice or Bad? Traditionally in Africa, orphans were accommodated by the extended family. But in Europe people built orphanages. The characteristics of orphanages for the last two hundred years have been: • insufficient numbers of staff to meet the physical and psychological needs of the children; • a…
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Sky diving
Many many thanks to Williams Investment Management and especially Emma Kilburn who is doing a tandem parachute jump to raise money for 2 charities, including AVIF.All the best for October 28th, Emma. Technorati Tags: charity parachute, donation, volunteer, kenya, AVIF Powered by ScribeFire.