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Kenya Team Update 9: Sept 09 (Banda Banda, and then there were 4!)

I can’t believe it has already been a week since we said bye to everyone at the airport. Our plans since then have changed and we found out once we had gotten to Rukinga Ranch that we would be departing the following day for Kasigau! We are definately in the rainy season now. Even after [...]

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Alice’s Adventures in Venezuela: Caripe; Grinding with coffee gangsters and other tales! (Part 3)

Wednesday: Well it’s been Bye Bye Venezuelan beaches and Hola hilltops & coffee haciendas the past two days as we’ve left the comfy confines of Playa Colorada behind for the lush green scenery of Caripe. This is where Leap teams will spend weeks 6,7, and 8 of their volunteer placements and it couldn’t be more [...]

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Tanzania 2009: Tom’s Blog (5)

On Monday we continued at Rau Primary School with me and Harry working on the toilet again. Sadly despite hiring a better builder and pulling out al of the stops we didn’t complete the toilet block this week. All of the walls are currently five foot high and it will be completely by the next [...]

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Tanzania 2009: Tom’s Blog (2)

It’s week 2 in Tanzania and we have been working at three different orphanages. Firstly between Monday and Wednesday we worked at Camp Joshua, where we built a cow shed. It may sound a strange thing to do at a Tanzanian Orphanage, but it was vital to provide shade for their two cows which give [...]

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