Blogs from Africa - page 2708

For those of you that didn’t know I’ve left life in London and taken a new job as the International Development Director for a small NGO, Children’s Care and Protection Rwanda and UK registered charity Unity of Children. CCPRWA was formed in 1998 following the genocide, by a group of Rwandan’s who had grown up as orphans in Uganda and with the support of a number of international organisations runs a number of different programmes in Rwanda, supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged children across the country. From the beginning of July I’ve been working with the charity in Rwanda formulating and implementing a strategy for the development and sustainability of all their activities. At the same time I am overseeing a major capital development at the Nsinda Centre, a vocational training school run by CCPRWA in Rwanda’s ... read more

OK, I know we have been really slack and left the blog hanging half way through the trip - Sorry - no excuses. After we left the Gorilla's in Rwanda we headed back to Kosoro in Uganda for the night before the start of the return trip to Nairobi with a few stops along the way - at hopefully, a more leasurly pace!!! We had already covered a massive distance in the first 7 days and had an amazing experience with the Gorilla's on day 8. Day 9 - Left Kosoro at 5.30am (finally getting used to the early starts) and travel to Queen Elizabeth National Park (about 9 hours later). We enjoyed a late afternoon cruise on the Kasinga Channel in the park which apparently has one of the worlds largest concentrations of Hippos along ... read more

Greetings all! Unfortunately my time in South Africa has come ot an end. What an amazing 12 days it has been. In this post we have: my safari, attacking monkies, Johannesburg crime, and the apartheid museum. Let's get started... Upon my arrival in Johannesburg I was greeted by Patrick, the owner of the hostel I was staying at. That night, we had a couple drinks together and watched cricket until 2 in the morning. I guess you could say that we're pretty much best friends by now... The next morning I was whisked off to Kruger National Park to chase some animals on a three day safari. to be perfectly honest, the safar ididn't quite live up to my expectations. Out of the big five (lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and buffalo) we only saw two- a ... read more

Today we hung out with the kids in our family giving them gifts from home and playing UNO. We started out with a structured game, but by the end it was a free-for-all and whoever could throw their cards down the quickest was the winner. We like their game better, definitely more exciting.... read more

Mambo! Yep mum - sorry - I'm vegetarian again. If you look at the last picture here then it may help you understand why. Actually, all the current volunteers have gone veggie. I'm not even sure you would call the stuff meat. Getting really quite bored of the food here. Beans, peas, bananas, avocados, chipatis, rice, potatoes and pasta. Think that covers the menu. Yum! I'm sure you're all jealous. This is why for Helen & Mike's last night we treated ourselves and went to a 'Western' restaurant. It was full of Mzungus. Patrick (our African volunteer coordinator) said he felt out of place! I haven't said too much about the volunteer house partly because it's crazy. We would be way better than Big Brother. Between the staff and the volunteers there is always something ... read more