Tag: Kenya
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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 plastics and turning them into coat hangers. This is particularly brilliant for us because we’re trying…
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Kickstarting volunteering
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…
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All working toward the same goal
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…
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Marathons and mud hats
Thanks to Stacey for the title and her wonderful updates on her own blog. Canadian volunteer, Stacey, is definitely making an impression in the villages of Khalaba and Shibanze : “Before I’d even left the project site [to go running], I was asked to jump up and down. I obliged, which the older ladies thought…
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Getting active inworld
Working with LLK is always a pleasure but playing “inworld” with them is even more fun. Brique, Director of the German-based organisation operating in Kenya, is very active in the Second Life virtual world and recently completed “The Lavender Field“, a public area where anyone can literally fly in and listen to live music, chat and…