Tag: Brazil

  • Scary world

    Scary world

    Anupma wrote to me this morning. She arrived back from the Mara and took a flight to Zanzibar in order to spend more of her “limited time” there. As a photojournalist she’d been asked to submit a story but had no idea of what was about to unfold. “..it was insane here .. couldnt stop…

  • The world at our fingertips

    The world at our fingertips

    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…

  • Happy New International Year of the Forests

    Happy New International Year of the Forests

    The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests. The Amazon Rain Forest Basin is the home to our largest rainforest on Earth. It represents over half of the planets remaining rainforests. The basin is roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States. It covers some 40% of the South…