Posts Tagged ‘Mozambique diaries’

Discovery Earth Live maps our Mozambique trip

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Summer Rayne Oakes in Mozambique for Discovery: Earth Live

Allan and I are traveling from Johannesburg, South Africa to the community development and forestry projects through Mozambique. We’re in Maputo right now (the capital of Mozambique), filling up on some good food and a hot shower before we start getting too dirty. :o ) We need to take care of setting up a shop of products from Maciene community group in the local airport tomorrow morning with Rui from the FDC and then we head to Maciene at noon (arrive approx 3pm) to see the projects-in-action and then off to neighboring Chongoene to a brand new community development-design project that is in its contractual stages with UNICEF. You can follow our trips and projects through the country as they happen on Discovery’s new web feature: Earth Live. It’s a cool satellite-based map feature where you can access the lat-long of where we are, radio interviews, and photos…that is if we have enough bandwidth to send photos. So stay tuned for this exploration experiment…Launching Sunday, Sept 20, 2008. 

Mozambique Diaries from Nov 07

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Summer Rayne Oakes overlooks men collecting water in Mozambique outside of the village Natugo

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!

Summer Rayne Oakes gets down with the locals

Yes, that’s me getting down with the locals.

Summer Rayne Oakes backlit in Mozambique

Wherever you are, people will follow.

Summer Rayne Oakes: Tomb Raider in Mozambique

Summer Rayne Oakes: Tomb Raider…Exploring the ruins in the oldest European building in Africa

Summer Rayne Oakes & Allan Schwarz watch on as they build a school in Natugo, Mozambique

Allan and I watch on as the locals build a nursery school in Natugo in Northern Mozambique