Tag: AVIF
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Appreciating rain
I just spoke to the volunteers, all huddled in a mud hut in the village waiting for the rains to stop. Twice a year the rains fall on the Amboseli plains of Kilimanjaro, literally bringing life. Within hours the “Savanna” – the semi-arid landscape made up of grassland, plains, kopjes, and marshes – changes. There are very few trees…
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Power of the Amazon Music AND People
This video was made by meu amigo, Leo Chermont, in his studio. He wanted to record the power and the beauty of the people. As he says on the video “Trabalhar assim… nao tem coisa melhor” <With work like this there couldn’t be anything better> Leo, in sunglasses in the video, is also accompanied by…
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Let Us Dare
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…
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A total Kenyan workout with instant results
Juli and Sabrina have now been fully initiated into Kenyan life. As well as work outs with Canadian-inspired Kenyan ingenuity they’ve completed the chicken house and also helped improve the acoustics of the school classrooms, under the experienced guidance of Stacey, volunteer manager at the Tumaini Centre near Bungoma in NW Kenya. See Stacey’s blog…
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Diary of a volunteer
I have met two English guys on stay in Fiji. They said to me that they taught the small children in Africa. I got so interesting in and one year after I decide to do it. It was not so easy to find some organization to go with. Almost all organizations take some fees. I…