Betty – mother, wife, and Ugandan small-scale gold miner. And yesterday she told me how her life has changed for the better over the past few months, thanks to wonderful piece of kit called a Gold Kacha. Betty’s role within the gold mining process was to do the sluicing of…
A team from the LeAf Academy in Bournemouth recently visited our Malawian CRED Partner, Butterfly Space, and spent two weeks carrying out a range of practical activities to enhance the work that Butterfly does week in week out in a rural area of this impoverished country. Butterfly Space is situated…
One of the projects that our partner John Njendahayo is running in Uganda, is the development of a biogas farm. The ultimate aim is for it to produce biogas from animal manure, that can be compressed into cylinders and made available to people as cooking fuel. In so doing they will…
In our final full day of the trip, we got to experience multiple unique parts of Bulgarian culture. From 10:00 to 12:00 we were given free time to explore Stara Zagora, and at lunch we met in the park to eat. After this, we went to “The Old Cellar”, an…
Today was a strenuous day, which included engaging in physical activities during the middle of the day where the temperature peaked. My group in particular was especially arduous as our activities included capture the flag and races, the Bulgarians did all that we asked without breaking a sweat, this however…
Day No.5 Today, we have experienced the headache of trying to look after children. I can honestly say I don’t think that my brain is going to recover for quite a while, although most of the children were well behaved (There were some loud ones but never mind). Both classes…
We started off the day with some eggs for breakfast and soon after headed out to the International Youth Centre in Stara Zagora. The sun was beaming down on us, making the journey to the centre very tiring and exhausting. However, when we got…
Today we went to a kindergarten, to refurbish it ready for the children to come back in September. Although it was hot and Danielle was being goofy as always lol we got the job done. It’s pretty unbelievable how relaxing applying varnish…
Welcome to the second day of our Splendid experience in Bulgaria, in the wonderful city of Stara Zagora. Today our ambitious teenagers held games and challenges for the youth centre, although it was an obstacle to communicate with the children, they overcame their fears and many made friends and exchanged…
Welcome to our first blog post all the way from Bulgaria! Our first mission as XLP Bulgaria was to get to our destination Stara Zagora. This was no easy task, we started from our rendezvous point at St Pauls academy at the crack of dawn to board the minibus generously…
