Thanks to our never-say-die friends on the ground in Kenya and the generous contributions of our family and friends all over the world, the playground at Solio Public School in Nyeri, Kenya has begun. As you can see above, the heavy equipment has moved in and work is progressing very quickly. The first picture shows…
Category Archives: education
My Hippie Life in the 21st Century
So here I sit in a bamboo yoga studio, surrounded by the Costa Rican highland jungle. Across from me a 20-something with dreadlocks and piercings in her lip stretches to the tunes of The Who. A young man with a long blonde ponytail and a beaded necklace greets us as he walks by, offering hugs…
Ecuador – Our Routine Life
As we settle in for a month in our new home-away-from-home in Ecuador, I realize how much we like our routines. Since leaving our stay in Thailand in February, we were pretty much living out of suitcases as we toured through Phuket and Borneo, and across the ocean to Quito and the Galapagos. Not a…
Leveling the playing field – Update
A couple of months ago we launched a web appeal to our friends and family to join us in ‘leveling the playing field’ at a rural school in the foothills of Mount Kenya. We had visited the school in November with our friends Petra and Sammy from Sandai Lodge to help plant trees that they…
Salabwek
Two years ago, Kew Beach, my school in Toronto, built a well in Kenya through a charity called Free the Children. I went with my family to visit it and the village is called Salabwek. First we saw the old school which the village parents had built because they wanted their kids to learn. It…
The Greening of Kenya
At the end of this blog post, please click through to our Christmas appeal! I’ve always known trees are important. In Canada, one of the greenest countries in the world, we’re constantly defending our forests from overzealous logging, urban encroachment and evil developers. In Toronto, you can’t even cut down a tree on your own…
Homeschooling Headache
I’ll get straight to the point. Homeschooling Melissa and Chris has had its challenges. Our travel plans in September were to settle, once again, into a home-away-from-home for a full month, this time in beautiful Tuscany Italy. But unlike our month on the farm in Ireland in July, September was also the start of…
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