Entries Tagged ‘orphans’:

A lovely note from our man in Cambodia – Team Update!

Dear Guy, I hope you’re well! The volunteers have completed the house building and pumping well for the community now, which is fantastic! They’ve also been teaching at the orphanage centre in the afternoons. The Cambodian Children Painting Project in SihanoukVille is expecting them to be there on 15 Feb and start works on 16 [...]

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Quick update from sunny Tanzania!

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 [...]

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Volunteering in Kenya! Video :)

Have you ever dreamed of exploring Kenya on your gap year? Its one of the most breathtaking countries on the amazing continent that is Africa!! The endless plains of the serengeti, the Big 5, living with incredible indigenous tribes and with local communities, learning about their traditions and learning their traditional dances, teaching english, working [...]

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Not going to uni? Boost your CV the fun way!

With University places getting more and more competitive as time goes on – more and more people are opting out of uni! With an accumulating debt of around £25,000 on tuition fee’s alone at the end of a 3 year course, who can really blame you. But don’t panic too much, it’s certainly not the [...]

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My South African Experience – Sorrel Ireland!

Hi My names Sorrel Ireland, I’m 18 and ive just returned from Spending 10 weeks in South Africa…..it was the best thing I have ever done! It has opened up so many doors for me. Every minute of the trip was memorable, we took part in so many different activities like game drives, bush walks, [...]

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A Summer of Teaching in Tanzania…

Mambo from the July Summer Team in amazing Tanzania! Sorry it’s taken us so long to update you all on how we’re getting on but we’ve been kept very busy. So here’s what has happened on our African Adventure weeks 1-4… We arrived in Dar es Salaam and our base in Mbezi Luis on the [...]

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Tanzania Team Update!

Hi Guy, We are all doing well and we are now at Lake Manyara doing plastering at the orphanage. We had an Eco-lodge phase yesterday and we are getting ready for the whole day game drive tomorrow. On thursday, the whole group will be heading out to Serengeti and later to the Ngorongoiro Crater before [...]

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The end of the September Team Placement, South Africa

How can 10 weeks have passed so quickly? The September team have just returned from a successful Sabie trip (great to go out with a bang/bridge swing!) and all are fit after some rather hot extreme adventures! They’ve been very proactive over the past 10 weeks especially as there has only been three of them [...]

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A quick update from TZ! (My favorite place in Africa)

Hi Guy, The group are doing really well and are all in Zanzibar at the moment, i believe they will be back with us on Thursday. Over the past weeks they have been working at the Neema Children’s Centre and will be working at Don Bosco Centre starting this week. Verena will be coming home [...]

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The beds have arrived!

Hello everyone! Brilliant news!!!!!! The kids at Good Hope now have their 16 new beds, matresses, pillows, sheets and moquito nets, as well as supplies of food! Now they can sleep comfortably in their new beds, have balnkets to keep them warm in the winter months and will be less likely to contract Malaria. Malaria [...]

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