SOS Africa
At some point during the last couple of weeks, probably during my leisurely weekend perusal of blogs, an initiative called Travel Bloggers Give Back entered my consciousness. The idea, from Bret Love of Green Global Travel , is to use a blog post to highlight the work of a charity which the blogger personally supports and wants to create awareness about. It is, after all, the season of goodwill. I have written about SOS Africa once before, but now, in the run-up to Christmas and as part of this project, it seems like a good time to catch up on this charity’s work.
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Photo courtesy of Jo Woods
So, the two-week Africa theme is over, and what a fabulous two weeks it has been. It sounds stupid, but even though part of the point of it was to show that this amazing and complex continent cannot be defined or described in simple terms, I thought that I might be able to show a lot more of it in two weeks. At the start, a fortnight felt like a luxurious amount of time, but before long, the days were slipping away at an alarming rate and I only managed a few feature pieces, which in no way adequately portray all that is Africa. I hope that you can accept these weaknesses and that what is here has in some way opened your eyes and has left you wanting to discover more.
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Creating lasting change in Africa
Chris Mburu, A Small Act. Photo courtesy of Dogwoof
One small act can change the world. I can hear the rumbling of cynicism already, but allow me to explain. On Friday 15th April, the film A Small Act by Jennifer Arnold was released in the UK and I went along to see it.
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