Tag: children
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Brush your teeth !
Sabrina, Juli and Maria have been hard at work in Eshibanze, NW Kenya, at the Canadian-born Tumaini Centre. Joined now by Canadians Ainslee and Danielle, the Health and Hygiene Program was re-started just yesterday. It instructs the children (and adults) in simple methods of washing hands before meals and after using the washrooms. Using soap,…
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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…
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When you tuck yourself into bed tonight ….
.. 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…
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Reaching the roof of the world – Tibet
Ke – nang – ge ma – re Welcome AVIF would like to introduce Tashi YZ, the tibetan English teacher responsible for our newest placement. Situated 4000m up on “the roof of the world” is a community in rural Tibet, 160km from Lhasa, the capital city. Tashi was born in Nyemo in 1981, the…
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More results in Nairobi
Yesterday, Ingrids Angels received a 2nd gift. In 2010 the Ingrid Education Centre are moving another class up to Grade 4 and Zoe, visiting at the moment, offered to help with the construction of the new classroom. Within 5 hours they’d all finished. Zoe leaves for Maseno Thursday morning to visit The Mercy Home. Thank…