Volunteering Matters

United Nations Volunteers have been working together with the internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter & UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo in a campaign to show the world why volunteering matters: This years International Volunteer Day is 5 December – a critical…

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The Amazon Life Changing & Life Supporting

Its so hard to know where to begin with this place. Belem & the islands of Brazil are intense, passionate, humble, beautiful, powerful ……. Its a place everyone needs to visit. With so many incredible experiences I have to…

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Recycling plastics – empowering youth

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…

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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…

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Maasai at TED (almost)

Petr, one of our Czech volunteers from the Summer has managed to upload hundreds of his photos to both Flickr and Facebook to pass on just how amazing the month was he spent at the village of Enkito, Amboseli…

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