Following the launch of RGB Building Supplies’ Tools for Africa appeal in January, the builders merchant is thanking trades and the community local to Exeter for helping to donate 15 bulk bags full of preloved tools which have been passed to Devon-based charity Amigos.
Amigos works closely with another UK charity called Work Aid, which will now refurbish the donated items before sending them to Africa. The tools will be used by young people so they can learn construction skills and help lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
Staff from Exminster Pre-school recently travelled over 7,000 miles to spend a week visiting Nayamba School in Zambia.
Leah Barnes, Exminster Pre-school Manager, and Michaela Petherick, Pre-school’s Play Leader, were part of a team of 10 local people who went on a self-funded visit to support and develop teaching and learning at Nayamba School, a Community primary school for children in rural Chisamba, Zambia.
Established because there was no primary school close enough or affordable, this free school now has over 290 children attending from the surrounding area. The pre-...
What do you keep just in case? Is it a safe little black dress that you wear when you are feeling no-so-slim, is it those bits of wood in the shed which are sure to come in handy someday, or is it an old PC or laptop? Unfortunately a computer, unlike the others has a sell by date. Whilst there will always be someone in need of wood or a lovely black dress, the computer industry is constantly moving forward with faster processor speeds, better graphics and larger memories. Your old IT can quickly become useless. With an average 3-4 year cycle of computers huge numbers of computers are being...
Film Director and Photographer Harry Hook spent his childhood in Kenya and has been filming beautiful images of the African Continent and its people for over forty years.
His photographs are regularly published by newspapers and magazines and his films shown on TV and in cinemas around the world.
Join Harry for an unforgettable evening of extraordinary stories, and unique film footage as he tells the epic story of Africa’s people and their inspiring journey from the land to the city.
In his talk he covers a vast span of places and people and shines fresh light on...
Mark has spent the last decade taking on world records and world firsts in ultra-endurance. Best known as a cyclist, he circumnavigated the globe, taking a staggering 82 days off the previous time, pedalled the length of the Americas and recently smashed the Cairo to Cape Town record (41d 10h 22m) Africa Solo is a story of extreme endurance, through deserts, across mountains and vast savannah. Most of all though it is a story about people - his team back in the UK and the incredible people of Africa who made this journey possible. It is a tough, sobering but heart-warming account of a...
The Buturi Project is a small charity made up of like-minded volunteers, helping a remote village in Tanzania, on the shore of Lake Victoria, where they are struggling with poverty in near intolerable conditions.
Like many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, Buturi has suffered from the twin disasters of AIDS and drought.
Twenty-five years of AIDS has decimated the community, so we tend to see the very young and old with the stronger, more capable generation missing. The older generation struggle to bring up their orphaned grandchildren. Buturi is a village typical of this...
Bicton College Principal David Henley greeted delegates in his home this week, welcoming them from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania as part of Bicton Overseas Agricultural Trust’s latest intake.
The seven students were invited to dine with David and wife Leigh, along with BOAT trustees Bill Vellacott and Mike Pash, giving them an introduction to Bicton College, it’s background, people and it’s close links with the Bicton Overseas Agricultural Trust.
The Trust aims to improve agriculture in the developing world by providing effective training programmes that can be further taught...
Animal Care students from Bicton College have just returned from a 3 week trip of a lifetime in Malawi.
Animal Curators Oli Force and Jane Jennings took the group of 16 students to experience the wilds of Malawi, embracing the culture, lifestyle, people and wildlife.
Working with the Nyika Vwaza Trust (a registered charity in both Malawi and the UK), students visited the Nyika National Park and Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve learning about their anti-poaching and educational outreach work.
Students were inspired by the conservation projects and park management...
A man mountain himself on the field, former Exeter Chiefs star Simon Alcott has himself been scaling new heights recently as part of a fundraising scheme for the charity Restart Rugby. Having been forced to quit the professional game last season through injury, Alcott chose the official Rugby Players’ Association charity to benefit from his sterling efforts to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. During the very early hours of Sunday 22 September – a very tired posse of Devon’s finest ‘brave-lads’ picked their way along the lofty summit ridge of the iconic mountain. Former...
Halfords in the Exeter area are to take unwanted bikes off customers’ hands in an initiative to provide much-needed affordable transport for communities in Africa.
For six days, from Thursday 11 July to Tuesday 16 July, Britain’s biggest bike retailer is inviting customers to bring cycles currently lying abandoned in garages and garden sheds to any of its 460 stores.
Those donating bikes will be offered a 10% deal off the price of a brand new model as well as seeing their old two-wheeler go to a good cause.
Halfords is launching the scheme in partnership with...
