by Carlo | Apr 19, 2009 | Blog, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Volunteer Work
I’ve just finished a short slideshow and posted it up on youtube. Its seven minutes short, or long depending on what way you look at it :)! With over 8,000 photo’s from our African volunteer trip its difficult to keep any slideshow under the ten minute mark. It...Tags: africa, slideshow, volunteer
by Carlo | Apr 18, 2009 | Blog, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Uncategorized, Volunteer Work
Well its been a rollercoaster of a three months and we got back home yesterday, much to the surprise of our family and friends. We had told them all along that we would be home on the 23rd April, so you can imagine their surprise when we showed up out of the blue. We...Tags: africa, travel, volunteer
by Carlo | Apr 6, 2009 | Blog, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Since I don’t have any news to report on the past few days, I thought I’d share the contents on my rucksack that I brought with me to Africa. In the past whenever, I’ve gone traveling, I’ve always brought a huge suitcase or a 115 liter...Tags: africa, tips, travel, volunteer
by Carlo | Apr 2, 2009 | Blog, Uganda, Volunteer Work
Well we arrived back in Kampala yesterday after a week in Kigali. We had a nice time there and although we visited the Orphans of Rwanda orphanage there for the week, we didn’t feel like we were helping as much as we felt we should be. This was mainly due to the...Tags: africa, uganda, volunteer
by Carlo | Mar 22, 2009 | Blog, Uganda, Volunteer Work
We’ve entered the final third of our African adventure, and have only another day left here in Kampala, before we make the eight hour journey south and across the border into Rwanda. We go to Sanyu babies home tomorrow for the last time before we leave on Tuesday. The...Tags: africa, travel, volunteer
by Carlo | Mar 17, 2009 | Blog, Uganda, Volunteer Work
Happy St.Paddy’s day to everyone back home. I hope the day is good for the parade and that the guinness tastes even better! We had our own celebrations for paddy’s day on Friday night last. We met a girl from Sligo who is working up in Northern Uganda as a volunteer...Tags: africa, kampala, paddys day, uganda