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Freedom is a very popular concept in philosophy, and the question about the essence of freedom has divided philosophers in many camps while the variety of different answers has been at the heart of different views of science, religion, ethics, and nature itself. The question is still pondered in faculties (and canteens) around the …
The Virtues of a Virtual Office
It’s all about efficiency. Gathering a group of people in an office building to carry out their work, essentially manipulation and dissemination of information has certain benefits. The office gives them a sense of team-spirit, it is easy to cooperate and allocate the right person to the right task. The …
The Virtues of a Virtual Office
It’s all about efficiency. Gathering a group of people in an office building to carry out their work, essentially manipulation and dissemination of information has certain benefits. The office gives them a sense of team-spirit, it is easy to cooperate and allocate the right person to the right task. …
best eaten raw to prevent
cancer and save the climate
Not only Cassandra’s heirs are predicting serious disaster if mankind’s consuming power keeps growing the way it does. It is commonplace that this planet we call ours cannot keep up with the rate we are using her resources. The 21th century consumer simply uses more of the …
best eaten raw to prevent
cancer and save the climate
Not only Cassandra’s heirs are predicting serious disaster if mankind’s consuming power keeps growing the way it does. It is commonplace that this planet we call ours cannot keep up with the rate we are using her resources. The 21th century consumer simply uses more …
A new bird, revolutionary chirping?
These days I – like most of us – make extensive use of social media to broadcast bold opinions, heartfelt compassion or stark disappointment, but unlike an apparent majority I don’t opt for the tool twitter. That is, besides the automated “tweets” that my blogs, facebook pages, and community website spawn …
A new bird, revolutionary chirping?
These days I – like most of us – make extensive use of social media to broadcast bold opinions, heartfelt compassion or stark disappointment, but unlike an apparent majority I don’t opt for the tool twitter. That is, besides the automated “tweets” that my blogs, facebook pages, and community website …
Imagine a crowded market, piles of vegetables, leeks, turnips, potatoes, onions everywhere, a meager dog with a fishbone in its mouths slips under a shaggy table. The sharp smell of overripe pineapples blends with the dustclouds between the stalls. Coarse voices reiterate their merchandize and their mantras feel comforting. An old hunchback offers dried fruits …
Imagine a crowded market, piles of vegetables, leeks, turnips, potatoes, onions everywhere, a meager dog with a fishbone in its mouths slips under a shaggy table. The sharp smell of overripe pineapples blends with the dustclouds between the stalls. Coarse voices reiterate their merchandize and their mantras feel comforting. An old hunchback offers dried fruits …
The timespan between the loss of my glasses in Kuala Lumpur and the now is a virtual vacuum. I don’t have the time to write a detailed document about it. The reader could look at charitytravel.blogspot.com and transsiberian.kindmankind.net. Surely, there have been a few noteworthy anecdotes and I will intertwine them with my future writing …
The timespan between the loss of my glasses in Kuala Lumpur and the now is a virtual vacuum. I don’t have the time to write a detailed document about it. The reader could look at charitytravel.blogspot.com and transsiberian.kindmankind.net. Surely, there have been a few noteworthy anecdotes and I will intertwine them with my future writing …
Presentation in Khabarovsk
January 22th. KhabarovskFor an interested audience of young shipbuilding students at a technical college, we hold our presentation of Charity Travel. We are glad to see that our story inspires, and can become a modest part of a student’s motivation to learn foreign languages.
On a beautiful freezing January day …
Dorogy Dobra (Paths of Kindness)
January 13th, 2011. Ekaterinburg.Operating an NGO in Russia, especially beyong the Petersburg-Moscow axis, is quite a challenge. Paths of Kindness is a remarkable organization in the capital of the Urals owrking with underprivileged children. They organize weekend excursions, special education, and facilitate responsible adoption.
Name:Camillus HouseAim:To eradicate …
Kind of TranssiberianEarly January, 2011. Berlin, Kaunas, RigaOn the road again. This time we are moving to Korea overland and hope to support some project on our way. If you know any charitable organisations working somewhere near the Transsiberian railroad, please do let us know. These projects will of course be published on this charitytravel …
News UpdateDecember 8 – December 24, 2010. Mellensee, BerlinA lot has happened – one year ago we were celebrating Christmas in Kenya as we were building the Rainbow Center. Now we are working on our book and website from a ‘datscha’ near Berlin.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our …
News UpdateNovember 20-December 7, 2010. Mellensee, BerlinWe are still here, in a beautiful snowy forest near Berlin.
Yeon is working on her Korean book on Charity Travel, Kamiel is working on a Community Website for independent volunteers (soon to be pre-launched).
We will travel overland to Korea soon. If you know of any charitable initiatives …
News Update
November 3 – November 19. Berlin, Mellensee.As the weather turned drizzling dreary, we were working on chapters of the charity travel book, as well as Yeon’s children illustration book. Met with betterplace.org but their workload is too high- together we decided a seperate website for independent volunteers is a good idea. We want …
News Update
October 19-November 2. Tilburg, Berlin, Mellensee.We stayed a few more days in the Netherlands and Kamiel gave a newspaper interview for “Brabants Dagblad”. Then we shared a ride to Berlin and saw many of his old friends. We now stay in Mellensee, a quiet village some 30km south of Berlin and are writing …
