Entries Tagged ‘tree planting’:
filed in Borneo on Sep.22, 2011
So we’re in week 3 of the Leap placement in Borneo (!!) and all is great here. Lovely Leaper Eilidth is working alongside 8 other volunteers from all over the world and they’re a great bunch! They have been kept busy with teaching and project work at Tinangol Kindy in the rainforest. The community here [...]
Tags: Borneo vlunteering, coconut, Mount Kinabalu, Mountain climbing, rainfoest, rice wine, Teaching, tree planting
filed in Venezuela on Feb.24, 2011
The Venezuela Team has been in Caripe for the past few weeks, they did volunteer work planting trees on the farm, and restocking the nursery from the last Leap Group. They also did some volunteer work that they all said felt really good at a local school, teaching English classes, painting, and helping out with [...]
Tags: gap, Hugo, Isla Margarita, local school, Teaching, tree planting, venezulea
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 [...]
Tags: Borneo, Building, conservation, Construction, Monkeys, Orangutans, Reforestation, sports, Teaching English, tree planting
filed in Kenya on Apr.22, 2010
Greetings from the Kenyan Coast! Great news from us here: Construction has begun for the new nursery school block at Makongeni Primary! Yesterday, the whole team seemed quite beat as they’d worked really hard on Monday. Some are working on the new nursery classroom block while others have been restoring the tree nursery at the [...]
Tags: Building, community projects, Makongeni, Rafiki Kenia, school, tree planting
filed in Kenya on Apr.01, 2010
Hello everyone, hope you’re keeping warm! The April team all arrived safe and well yesterday, and despite being a little sleepy are really excited to have finally escaped chilly England! We just got back from Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary where I met up with the Leapers at the local primary school where we work (Ngonzini Nursery [...]
Tags: Elephants, Mwulaganje, Nursery school, tree planting