Please excuse a lull in blogs as at present in Cape Town trying to get more visas for next step but please continue viewing. It feels so good knowing that there is interest in this journey.
I will leave Cape Town on 7th October. The next phase will consist of the following countries:
Central African Republic, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leonie, Guinea, Gambia, Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt. If still time, I will complete work in Uganda and Ethiopia before I return to Cape Town. In January I will complete the journey through Southern Africa.
Happy viewing
Saturday, 17 September 2016
Monday, 12 September 2016
Different Homes in Tanzania
I have been struck by the different homes in Africa and discovered that the home is built in accordance with the tribe you belong to. There are about 46 tribes in Tanzania and each build their homes in a unique style. I would love to show you the interiors as well but did not photograph many. But here are a few examples
Thursday, 8 September 2016
Little more of Zanzibar
I had done so little sight-seeing in all my time in Africa but SEEING so much so as I had two hours before ferry home, I hopped on a little boat out to an island - the only 10 minutes in true African sale took over half an hour and I was still to get back in time so a fleet visit on the island and look what I found
More on Spice Farm Zanzibar
I have been adding photos to the past blogs so you have some visuals. Only instamatic auto pics!!!!!
I learnt that 29 farmers on Zanzibar Island are training in Biodynamic Agriculture.Their spices will become Demeter products. Here are a few pics of some of the spices I was shown.
This one is upside down - sorry
I learnt that 29 farmers on Zanzibar Island are training in Biodynamic Agriculture.Their spices will become Demeter products. Here are a few pics of some of the spices I was shown.
Wednesday, 7 September 2016
SOME PHOTOS ON THE WAY
Now without the stunning photos of Bernadette on tour, I have to offer my own but although not of the same quality and expertise, I hope they tell or show the story.
These are a few from an elephant orphanage in Kenya. One may only visit them in one hour of the day when they are brought up to feed - bottle-fed! so as not to have too much contact with humans.
I had the wonderful experience of being hugged by an elephant. The baby elephant leant on my chest and wrapped its trunk around my neck covering me in mud - I fell totally in love with this beautiful creature.
These are a few from an elephant orphanage in Kenya. One may only visit them in one hour of the day when they are brought up to feed - bottle-fed! so as not to have too much contact with humans.
I had the wonderful experience of being hugged by an elephant. The baby elephant leant on my chest and wrapped its trunk around my neck covering me in mud - I fell totally in love with this beautiful creature.
Friday, 2 September 2016
Elu Child Care MOROGORO
Erasto began his school after completing a Philosophy Degree in Ireland. He had returned to Tanzania and this was what he wanted to do but he had no finance. He began with three children in 1997.
He now has a school with a Kindergarten, primary and secondary school as well as a boarding school. 460 pupils! I was taken around the school and shown buildings, some old and well used, others new and some still under construction. A beautiful library with shelving but no books on the shelves yet.
Laboratory with all the equipment and I had the honour of meeting the whole high school to tell them about myself and work and answer their questions. Bright, focussed, confident youth filled with interest and smiling.
Throughout the school were happy, smiling children with warm and well mannered greetings, joyously playing.
Erastos main lesson he refers to as "Right Touch" and his philosophy around teaching is that we are not the one or the other but we are what lies in the middle, it is not the egg or the chicken that comes first but that which lives between the egg and the chicken. His great endeavour is that the children find their essence, who they are and find their individuality that they can shine out and become true leaders.
We are all uncles and aunts here at Elu Child Care as aunts and uncles can be trusted and one can speak openly to them. One big happy family.
Erasto has visited the Goetheanum for a conference, been to conferences in Hamburg and Brazil - Connectivity conference and so has come in touch with the teachings of Anthroposophy and though he has not trained as a Waldorf teacher all who meet him remark on what a Waldorf way he carries.
He has attended Waldorf Teachers Conferences in Nairobi and Hekima Waldorf in the past and many volunteer students come to Elu Child Care who have been Waldorf students themselves. He however says he knows nothing about Anthroposophy but feels a kindred spirit with those in the know.
He now has a school with a Kindergarten, primary and secondary school as well as a boarding school. 460 pupils! I was taken around the school and shown buildings, some old and well used, others new and some still under construction. A beautiful library with shelving but no books on the shelves yet.
Laboratory with all the equipment and I had the honour of meeting the whole high school to tell them about myself and work and answer their questions. Bright, focussed, confident youth filled with interest and smiling.
Throughout the school were happy, smiling children with warm and well mannered greetings, joyously playing.
Erastos main lesson he refers to as "Right Touch" and his philosophy around teaching is that we are not the one or the other but we are what lies in the middle, it is not the egg or the chicken that comes first but that which lives between the egg and the chicken. His great endeavour is that the children find their essence, who they are and find their individuality that they can shine out and become true leaders.
We are all uncles and aunts here at Elu Child Care as aunts and uncles can be trusted and one can speak openly to them. One big happy family.
Erasto has visited the Goetheanum for a conference, been to conferences in Hamburg and Brazil - Connectivity conference and so has come in touch with the teachings of Anthroposophy and though he has not trained as a Waldorf teacher all who meet him remark on what a Waldorf way he carries.
He has attended Waldorf Teachers Conferences in Nairobi and Hekima Waldorf in the past and many volunteer students come to Elu Child Care who have been Waldorf students themselves. He however says he knows nothing about Anthroposophy but feels a kindred spirit with those in the know.
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