filed in Tanzania on Aug.01, 2011
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 [...]
filed in Announcements, Asia, Borneo, Gap Year on Apr.28, 2011
Kipouvo Homestay – 02nd/21st April ‘11 Community The first thing to notice when arriving in the village of Kipouvo is the bumpy dirt track that leads you there, you really feel like you are heading into an isolated community. The population here is only about 400 people who are predominantly Kadazan/Dusun (the largest ethnic tribe [...]
filed in Kenya on Apr.20, 2011
The Kenya Leap Team arrived early this month with great enthusiasm and ready to volunteer. After a day of orientation they were set straight to work, getting their hands dirty with dung by making paper from elephant poo! After a day in the Elephant Dung Paper factory, it was time for game drives in the [...]
filed in Ecuador on Mar.15, 2011
The Ecuador team has officially finished their time volunteering at the coast and what a great end to an amazing 10 weeks! The classroom is nearly done, only lacking windows and doors (which will be crafted and installed by the community). We painted the classroom a beautiful blue inside and out and laid half of [...]
filed in Africa, Gap Year, Kenya on Feb.28, 2011
The leapers leaped higher in the last 2 weeks when they managed to finish some of the projects they started like the old mans house which was quickly done. It was great to see the old man cutting a tape to enter his new house with a big smile on his face and a big [...]
filed in Kenya, Solo on Feb.15, 2011
Djambo! At the beginning of this week, Sarah, better known as Mama Simba, asked me along on a visit to the local Ololomei Primary School in the Mara North Conservancy. Sarah is the project manager of the ‘Living with Lions’ project, based at Serian Camp. It’s an organisation, that carries out science -based conservation in Kenya, [...]
filed in Ecuador, Gap Year on Feb.15, 2011
Hola! We spent our second week on the coast carrying lots of dirt. The walls are coming up on the classroom but unfortunately that’s the job of one skilled builder. The rest of us help out by carrying sand from the beach to mix concrete and excavating and carrying dirt to flatten out a play area [...]
filed in Africa, Kenya, Solo on Jan.20, 2011
Day 1 – January 5th 2011 We have arrived safely. The camp has no clients till 13th Jan but there will be plenty for us to do. After tomorrow Kala will be the only female in camp surrounded by 30 males. The plane we flew down to Muthaiga from Nairobi was more like a [...]
filed in Africa, Gap Year, Kenya on Jan.10, 2011
Just got back from Mwaluganje. The group is in very good spirits and appear to have gelled together amazingly well. They have been focusing on the construction of the new kitchen at Ngozini Primary School that we started last week and love Mwaluganje. One of your lads decided to try and eat elephant poop to [...]
filed in Costa Rica on Dec.15, 2010
Last month The Leap’s intrepid Alice headed back to Costa Rica (it’s a tough job!) to see how the projects and communities we’ve been working with since 2006 are coming along. For the past 4 years lovely Leap volunteers have been working at El Silencio community on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, helping the [...]
