Mozambique Diaries from Nov 07
In anticipation of my departure tomorrow to Mozambique, I’ve cut together a little video-diary from my trip last November 2007. Some writing is taken out of my journals, which I’ve yet to share fully. I’ll land in Johannesburg on the 17th and catch up on some sleep. Allan and I will then have dinner with Phyto Trade, detour through Kruger National Park, and drive to the southern end of Mozambique to check out his new project with UNICEF. The plan is to stay there for a day or so and then end up at camp at the Mezimbite Forest Centre and work there for a bit. We have a number of the Forest Centre’s (a.d. schwarz’s) spectacular sustainably-harvested wood products in the states and we’ll be launching them later this year! Stay tuned for that and the completion of my trip this October!
Yes, that’s me getting down with the locals.
Wherever you are, people will follow.
Summer Rayne Oakes: Tomb Raider…Exploring the ruins in the oldest European building in Africa
Allan and I watch on as the locals build a nursery school in Natugo in Northern Mozambique
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September 16th, 2008 at 11:23 am
this pretty much brought tears to my eyes. What an adventure we had. So many good memories.
Esther
September 27th, 2008 at 6:12 am
[...] we continue the maddening journey northward to the Mezimbite Forest Centre between Beira and Dondo, thus completing my equally mad journey from my trip last year in Mozambique. That’s traversing the entire country from top to bottom- (the same length as the eastern [...]
October 11th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
very awesome
December 14th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
[...] event! Anyway, I may swing by that way and check out the project in May or June 2009 on my way to Mozambique. That’s the tentative plan right now. These things get hi-jacked all the time, so I’ll [...]
December 21st, 2008 at 10:29 am
[...] time. She’ll be writing about some of the work my colleague, Allan and I are doing over in Mozambique. Tentative plan is to head to the motherland again in May-June to do a Kenya-Rwanada-Mozambique [...]
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:42 am
[...] Ben K., Ben H., Caroline, Natali, Elliot, Alex, Ryan, and the list goes on)– I got to see Esther again, who had just come back from documenting Charity’s projects in Kenya (and provided most [...]