March 2010 - Meandering home

Greenpeace India

Greenpeace IndiaNew Delhi, India. March 28th, 2010Although Greenpeace is not yet established in India enough, they do very important works such as campaiging against toxic and nuclear waste, gene crops, and habitat destruction.

We visit their office south of Delhi and make a donation to help saving the Olive Ridley turtle.

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28 March, 2010

Environment, greenpeace, India, Olive Ridley Turtle, Orissa

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27 March, 2010

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Missionaries of Charity

Missionaries of charity, CalcuttaKolkata, India. March 25th, 2010Mother Teresa's Missionaries of charity offer volunteer opportunities in the poorest parts of Calcutta and other cities for every visitor who is willing to help.

We donate food for the orphans resident at the center.

NameMissionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa), CalcuttaAimThe Mother Teresa of Calcutta ...

27 March, 2010

Calcutta, children, India, Kolkata, Missionaries, mother Teresa

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February 3. Streetkids.

The plan is to organize an exhibition of the art created by the children at Muodjo. Potential benefactors will visit that display of the streetkids' interesting drawings and might chip in. So Oswaldo and I take a bus to the city and look for materials. Since we can't find them, we end up hanging out ...

16 March, 2010

Maputo, Muodjo

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February 1. Rolling on to Maputo.

We take a comfortable bus to Maputo. The roads on the South African side are what you would expect in the European Union and as the road cuts through the large cultivated fields we realize that South Africa is a rich country with a poverty problem - not a poor country with a rich upperclass ...

16 March, 2010

Maputo, Mocambique

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January 31. I challenge you to write a more boring blogpost!

We work together in the Café de la Crème in Randburg, which has a working wireless connection. At 10pm, after loads of emails and blogposts, we decide it's late enough and return home.

16 March, 2010

boring, Randburg

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January 30. You are untrained.

We visit a Charity Shop in the morning and have a bad experience with the owner. We introduce ourselves and Charity Travel, the rough style. Let me reconstruct the words of the prissy decadent shopkeeper.
"We're looking to do somethin' good. Maybe you could link us to some small-scale ngo around here?"
-"You guys are ...

16 March, 2010

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January 29. Whiskey cocktail?

Now we walk along the highway to Kempton park, take a minibus to downtown and swoosh up the 50 floor Carlton center tower to oversee the city. Square blocks, highrises. Only the distant African landscape reminds us we are still in Africa. We see buses meandering around Ghandi square, and being fans of Ghandi we ...

16 March, 2010

Johannesburg, Randburg, Vietnamese

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January 28.Amazing Seat Neighbour Coincidence.

We take an early morning matatu to the Donholm junction and change bus to the airport. Some writing in the departure hall, an expensive breakfast larded with a guilty feeling, an abundant intake of cappuccino and avocado sandwich, a safe flight to Johannesburg with a random encounter of sorts.

Wycliffe, my seat neighbour, is ...

16 March, 2010

Donholm, Johannesburg, seat neighbour, Zambia

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Eph’phatha Orphan home

Eph'Phatha Orphan HomeThiruvannaimalai, India. March 10th - 17th. 2010A wonderful orphans home in Tamil Nadu, India, run by the most hospitable people you can imagine.

Charity Travel works with Eph'Phatha about a week to help starting income generation projects.

NameEph'phatha Orphan homeAimSupporting orphaned children in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaSince1996Staff2: Nehru and RubyPeople ...

10 March, 2010

children, EphPhatha, India, orphans, Tiruvannamalai

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CORP Mumbai

CORP MumbaiMumbai, India. March 8th, 2010CORP (Community Outreach Programme) provides vocational training, workshops and shelter to underprivileged youth in the Dharavi slum, Mumbai.

We visit the slum with director Nirmal and support a tailoring vocational training program with a sewing machine.

NameCORP Community Outreach Programme, MumbaiAimSupporting needy children, women and slum communities ...

5 March, 2010

community outreach, CORP, Dharavi, India, Mumbai, vocational training

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Ikageng

Ikageng Centre JohannesburgJo-burg, South Africa. February 26th, 2010"Ikageng aims to improve the quality of life for orphaned and other vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS on a sustainable basis, and to ensure that they achive and live a fair life like every other child [and] to help develop [them] into educated, employable adults who could be ...

1 March, 2010

children, handprints, healthcare, HIV, Ikageng, Joburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

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