AVIF Global Volunteering

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  • When you tuck yourself into bed tonight ….

    When you tuck yourself into bed tonight ….

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    .. take a moment – not for guilt – but just to consider whether you can make a difference to someone. I’ve often thought how unfair it is to support one family and not the other but we have a special link with Christine and her family, the cook at the Tumaini Academy, set up…

  • Recycling plastics – empowering youth

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    I just got news via Facebook from Justin Sekiguchi of Up with Hope of the successful negotiations they’ve made with the Staken Recycling Company in Nairobi. Staken, a kenyan company, are actually collecting Justin’s teams’ hard-laboured collections of discarded plastics and turning them into coat hangers. This is particularly brilliant for us because we’re trying…

  • Sustainability = Empowerment

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    What do you get when you stick volunteers into a Kenyan community school project ….. Family Fun Day !!!! I won’t reiterate Stacey’s own words but a few key words for you : Well project, HUGE success, prepared poems, baby class singing their ABC’s , frog jump race, wheelbarrow race …. and the inevitable Teachers…

  • 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…

  • All working toward the same goal

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    I’m still buzzing from Englands amazing opening game against Wales last night in the RBS 6 Nations; winning 26:19. Still wondering which RBS person thought it would be a good idea to paint the RBS logo onto the grass and cover all the players in blue paint but thats another story. As always “sport” shows its…