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 >
Tags: doctors, footprints, hospitals & health, orphanage
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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INDIA | Thursday, 6 Jul 2006 | Views [4365] | 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