filed in Africa, Announcements, Gap Year, Kenya on Feb.29, 2012
Good morning to everyone in The Leap Office, I just wanted to send you a brief update from the stunning wilderness that is Tsavo where the Leap team currently are. All are well and busy with a mixture of work at the wildlife sanctuary, where we are focusing on maintaining elephant waterholes which are silted [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Gap Year, South Africa on Feb.29, 2012
Hi Guy, Lovely to hear from you and i hope you’re well! We’re all having a great time here in the sunshine, hopefully England’s not too cold for you at the moment. The last 3 weeks have been fun as the volunteers have had the opportunity to do some more work on any of the [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Tanzania on Feb.21, 2012
Tanzania, the land of the most specular safari on earth- the Serengeti, the highest mountain in Africa – Kilimanjaro, stunning white sand beaches and that warm African hospitality found nowhere else on earth….i’m so jealous of our leap team out there in the sunshine right now! Mathias and Mbassa our fanstic project leaders out there [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Kenya on Feb.16, 2012
Our team who are out in Kenya at the moment are such a lovely group and they’ve been working really hard – building rooms, one brick at a time. The Leap x
filed in Tanzania on Feb.08, 2012
Guy (The Leap’s MD) has just returned from visiting the Tanzania Leapers for a week of their volunteering gap year. Despite a night flight, very little sleep and a bit of a shock coming from a climate of 35 degrees to minus 4 he’s just filed a quick report and some photographs to help with the [...]
filed in Kenya on Feb.07, 2012
Jambo from Kenya, All is well at Makongeni. The team have been busy making a big push on the new classrooms for the school and building furniture over the last two weeks with some really good progress. We are also continuing to support the feeding program at the Catholic Nursery School and every morning there [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Gap Year, South Africa on Jan.27, 2012
Hi Guy, The leapers have been very busy during the last few weeks. The first week: They removed fences from the old horse paddock for the new elephant paddock. The started to build the dam in the elephant camp for the tame elephants going in there too. On Friday the leapers left for their excursion [...]
filed in Tanzania on Jan.26, 2012
Jambo from Tanzania, We have had a busy first three weeks with the Leap Team in Arusha, Safari Capital of Tanzania! After the classroom construction in the Maasai village of Olkokola in week one, the Leap volunteers moved on to painting a government school called Moshono and visit the Orphanage Center in Arusha. Over the [...]
filed in Kenya on Jan.23, 2012
Jambo from Makongeni! The Kenya Team has had an exhilarating 2 weeks so far with lots of different activities and experiences. After arriving at Mombasa we travelled to our first camp located in Shimba Hills in the Mwalunganje Elephant Sanctuary. The camp far exceeded our expectations and it quickly began to feel like home. We [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Gap Year, Tanzania on Jan.18, 2012
Hi Michaela, Just to let you know that the group are all doing really well! The leapers have been working on the construction of a classroom at the Maasai village. They have had a nice time and witnessed a Maasai warriors dance during their initiation at the village as well. At the weekend the group [...]
