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Let’s Party for Africa

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Last Friday night, a private fundraiser was held here in Abu Dhabi to support the Tabasamu Education Fund, a Kenya-based charity I have been working closely with for over a year (my role is primarily marketing / strategic partnerships and fundraising efforts here in the UAE).  See end of this post for more info on what the charity [...]

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Video of the effects of drought in Kenya

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Hi,
Further to my earlier posts/articles/photos from my trip to Kenya, I just watched a a recent video from CNN highlighting the effects of drought on the Samburu tribes in that country. The area focused on by the video is not far from where I visited in September 2009 (Isiolo, in Eastern Province). I thought [...]

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Red Cross: Kenya drought continues through rainy season

Friday, September 25th, 2009

This article is reposted from the website of the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent.
Kenya diary: Drought continues through rainy season
15 September 2009
Text and photos by Andreï Engstrand-Neacsu, IFRC in Kenya

Noor Guhad stands in the middle of the dry Oda earth dam, where water would have reached over his head three [...]

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Sights, sounds and smells of Kenya

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Hey everyone,
I just got back from my trip to the Northern Hemisphere! I hadn’t realised when we left Nairobi four days ago that we would be crossing the Equator on our journey to northern Kenya! I should really brush up on my geography…

At the Equator in Nanyuki

As we left Nairobi early on Sunday morning, our [...]

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Working holiday in Kenya

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Hi everyone,
As some of you know, I finally made a decision on where to spend my Eid holidays (Eid being Eid-al-Fitr, the three-day public holiday which occurs at the end of the annual observance of one month of fasting in the Muslim world).   Taking two days of leave from work, I was able to get nine [...]

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