AVIF Global Volunteering

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  • The world at our fingertips

    The world at our fingertips

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    The Uhundha Orphanage Centre Committee is now a fully registered CBO; Community Based Organisation, able to apply for funding and be audited and managed efficiently – thanks to AVIF’s own Bollywood movie star, Anupma Sud 😉 If this wasn’t result enough, Anu has already stayed an extra fortnight to collect signatures, hold meetings and open…

  • Let Us Dare

    Let Us Dare

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    I wanted to share this with you after Carolyn sent it, in a final response to the disappointing news that our project to send medical equipment to Kenya had failed. Speaking at the independent TEDxMileHigh, Obura Tongoi, a young Kenyan US Air Force Academy grad and Co Founder of Africa Redefined, advises us to .. “let…

  • Kickstarting volunteering

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    James Woodward is co-founder of Kickstart Kids International, an Australian-based organisation operating in Kenya. Their main focus is their Familia Moja Children’s Centre where James and fellow founder James Harrison travelled recently to reunite Familia Moja boys David, Rasto and Boni with their guardians. “Upon arrival in his small hometown village, I asked 14 year…

  • Let it snow – let it snow – let it snowwwww

    Let it snow – let it snow – let it snowwwww

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    Its such a pleasure, especially in this arctic weather, to work online. No commute – no cost – flexible timescales – but mainly because I work with so many fabulous people. Carolyn Adams is one of them. Yesterday morning Carolyn was on the phone to the British High Commission, diplomatically screaming at Nairobi’s bureaucracy, namely…