filed in Borneo on Jul.12, 2011
Hello from Borneo! The latest news of the Summer Leap team here in Sabah is all good! The volunteers had a great time in Batu Puteh and the new work there, moving on from tree planting to forest management which seems to be going down very well. They’ve finished that project now and have moved [...]
filed in Ecuador on Apr.11, 2011
Update from our Ecuador Leapers: The first week of volunteering in the Andes has gone really well. Everyone is settled into our comfortable homestay and the food is great. This week we seem to have done more work destroying than actually building! Much of the land arouend the village has become overgrown with eucalyptus spouts [...]
filed in Venezuela on Aug.10, 2010
Hey! Time in Venezuela is flying by! On Wednesday28th we finished painting the school’s sport court. We decorated the walls with the slogan ‘Viva la vida de desportivemente’ – live the life of sport. Eve was the artist and her Mural was inspired by graffiti she saw in Buenos Aires. The next day we had [...]
filed in Borneo on Jul.27, 2010
Greetings from Borneo! The arrivals of the July leapers few weeks ago was welcomed with much excitement by the communities and staff of Camp Borneo as always. Everyone is good and happy. Over the past few weeks the Leapers have been working really hard and got themselves stuck in with our Kindergarten foundation project in [...]
filed in Tanzania on Jun.03, 2010
Hello, Strange to think the April Tanzania Team are now in their last week! They have achieved such alot in their time here. I have talked to the Leapers and they tell me that they feel that they completed most of the projects they set out to 10 weeks ago, in the Maasai village at [...]
filed in Ecuador on May.26, 2010
The 2 Ecuador Teams have now, in the spirit of 1990′s Girl Power, become 1 as the 6 weekers flew off for the next stage of their adventures and the hardcore 10 weekers (Hannah, Izzy, Harvey, Georgie, Ellie, Alice, Jessie, Mark, Keiran and Lou) headed for the hills/Andes for the final phase of the Ecuador [...]
filed in Venezuela on Feb.22, 2010
Hello from sunny Venezuela! It’s Brendan here, writing from Caripe where I’m here with the group, I arrived here a couple of days ago. The weather up here is fantastic at the moment and the team are all looking very brown! The first week in Caripe was a bit of a slow one on the [...]
filed in Tanzania on Feb.22, 2009
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 [...]
