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On The Helm: First leg on an incredible Atlantic Adventure.
Embarking on an Atlantic Adventure: Steering the Southern Child Across the Bay of Biscay to Las Palmas I’m on the helm of the Southern Child, a 40ft yacht. The picture was take whilst crossing the infamous Bay of Biscay on a 2000miles passage to Las Palmas; to become acquaint to the sea. My second ‘big’ mistake. Sea sickness is bad…
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Tallinding Project : Provides Children Access to School in The Gambia
The Tallinding Project started when John and Christine Carter got involved with the building of a small Nursery School in the area known as Tallinding. Since, it’s grown to help even more children from every age group. Their aim moving forward is to give every child, no matter how needy, access to quality education. They have a number of success…
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Football is being used as a Powerful Tool; Changing Lives for the Better
We, Moving Mountains, launched the hugely successful ‘Black Cats’ Sports Program; which initially used Football to attract street children, boys and girls from the rural and slum communities. When the kids are playing and training, they are distracted away from the dangers and pitfalls that goes with living on the street; this includes crime, glue sniffing, drugs, prostitution and alcohol…
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Moving Mountains Trust: Changes Lives for the Better
Moving Mountains changes lives; Rescue Center for Street Kids & Feeding Program – Kenya, Nepal and Tanzania In many Towns our main priority is the high number of ‘street’ children; to address this serious problem we have created Rescue Centers that ‘each’ provides roughly 200 hot and substantial meals every day for the kids. We do not discriminate between street…
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Children create their own family bonds
There are six small orphaned children here between the ages of 2 and 4 years old who have formed a family bond. When I give one a biscuit he or she will not leave me until I give them another 5 for their chums; if I don’t they will run off and fetch all the others, making certain they all…
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Mama Sarah Obama: The Remarkable Grandmother of Barack Obama
Mama Sarah Obama, grandmother of Barack Obama – 44rd President of the United States of America Mama Sarah Obama, whom I was fortunate to spend a couple of hours privately with; before she was due to visit her grandson, Barack in Washington DC. She was remarkably sharp and enthusiastic, with a great sense of humor. She talked passionately about her…
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The Revenge of the Termites: Combating the Rising Threat…
I traveled from Siaya District, crossing the Rift Valley, to a small town on the slopes of Mt Kenya, near Nanyuki, where the British Army has a large base. I booked into a Hotel that caters for Mzungu (white people) who are planning to climb Mt Kenya. That evening there was a tremendous storm. I was in bed reading under…
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Kevin Obote
Kevin Otieno Obote, both parents died and he lived for a time with his Auntie. He arrive at 8yrs with bad asthma, thin and had ringworm. He recovered well after receiving treatment and enjoying a healthy diet. Now doing well at school, he is usually in the top group, studying so he can get a place at University. He wants…
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Michael Odimo
I have a choices, Michael Oduor Odimo did not; his father died and mother is still alive. She is poor and unable to provide for his basic needs. Michael was very sick, undernourished and very thin when he arrived. The staff at the orphanage immediately put him on a special diet and he had to be dewormed. During early days…
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Nanny Goat for the Orphanage
To thank the orphanage, kids and staff a surprise gift If I was asked what strikes me most here in rural Kenya, it is the real depth of poverty and pain. Watching children devouring a meal as if it may be their last or until whenever, certainly highlights for me that those in poverty really do live their lives “a…
