As a thank you to his community for the support he’s received over the last year while unemployed, Daudi a lodge gardener, planted and harvests kale at the Tloma Primary school. “Sukuma wiki” as it is known in Kiswhali is one of the most highly nutritious vegetables, containing Vitamins K, A, E and C along… Read more »
Author: Barbara Sirigos
Almost a bride to top student
When Sandra Vaughan first met Flora in 2014, she learned that the then 11 year old who’d just lost her mother, had been “sold” off into marriage by her father. Although early marriage is illegal in Kenya, sadly it is still an all too common practice in rural areas. The village chairman, the Maasai Chief… Read more »
Update from Morocco – Imik Simik Women’s Association for Rural Development
Does anyone else feel as though the last year and a half has been a bad dream? However, as we stir from the enforced rest of the last 18 months without travel I’m happy to share that slowly but surely the new headquarters of the Imik Simik Women’s Center in Morocco has been coming… Read more »
Vietnam is facing the fourth typhoon to hit the country in October
As if a pandemic isn’t enough in 2020, natural disasters from fires to flooding have been everywhere as well. Our O.A.T. team in Vietnam sent us an urgent appeal this week to help the Minh Tu Orphanage after another typhoon recently hit Vietnam’s central and coastal regions. “The center of Vietnam is facing it’s fourth… Read more »
Ten months on, a bushfire update – Zoos Victoria
It has been a momentous year. This time has forced us to pause, be at home, and think about our future. We watched as our zoos, once humming with activity, also paused and quietened. We learnt just how much we yearn for nature when we’re unable to be outside, and the importance of connecting with… Read more »
Walking less to learn more in Mongolia
If you’ve visited Mongolia with OAT, chances are you stopped in at the Ger District Kindergarten also known as The Art of Living Rightfully.
Minh Tu orphanage in Vietnam
Minh Tu Duc Son orphanage was started when a baby was left at Nun Minh Tu’s doorstep in 1986.
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