Silk Route Project Craig and Simon are currently travelling from India to Istanbul with the fantastic support of World Nomads. On behalf of Footprints, World Nomad's charity, they will be visiting of a number of projects along the route to deliver supplies of essential medicines to impoverished children.

Smiles and Laughter - Visiting Orphanages in the Ukraine

UKRAINE | Wednesday, 1 Nov 2006 | Views [6069] | Comments [4]

Compared to the places we have come from the Ukraine was a curious mixture of money and poverty. With a long history of wealth and power but a short history under the Russian Soviets it is trying to find it's feet and is even making murmurings of joining ... Read more >

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Three Orphanages in Bishkek

KYRGYZSTAN | Tuesday, 15 Aug 2006 | Views [13561] | Comments [20]

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's capital, is a beautiful modern city with a fair smattering of department stores, nice hotels and fine restaurants but as is often the case if you stray from the main streets then you get a more realistic picture of the state of ... Read more >

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Stone breakers of Siliguri

INDIA | Thursday, 6 Jul 2006 | Views [4366] | Comments [5]

This week we had the opportunity to represent Footprints (World Nomad’s charity) in Siliguri, where we visited 2 communities of Stone breakers: Chenga: pop-2500, no electricity, water, or sewage, the nearest hospital was a 12km WALK (that’s ... Read more >

Tags: doctors, footprints, hospitals & health

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