It’s been two weeks since I started work at Oxfam as a campaigner on their Conflict & Humanitarian campaign. We are currently focusing on two priority countries: Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Joining the team made me realize how little I know, or care, about some countries such as the Congo. Also, [...]
I just finished reading Sophie Dahl’s ’The Man with the Dancing Eyes’ and it must be the shortest book I’ve read in a very long time. It took me about 15 minutes to read the entire book cover to cover, and that’s probably because I lingered a bit on the illustrations. Dahl’s claim to fame is [...]
A few weeks back, I joined this organisation called Social Enterprise London. SEL is the largest network of social enterprises in Great Britain. I found this out after I attended their Annual General Meeting (AGM) a few days ago. Of course when I had joined it was just a google search…as all important internet decisions are [...]
“When it’s dark enough, you can see the stars” – Persian proverb Finally… got some time to write a blog and a chance to share my experience of the ‘Three Cups of Tea Project’. I finished reading book #31 a couple of weeks ago and its now on its way to its next reader in [...]
So Asim and I have both started reading our copies of Three Cups of Tea and the most random coincidences have happened in just the last few days. When we were coming back from our dinner two nights ago with our Kili trekkers, one of the girls from our group saw the book in Asim’s [...]
A few weeks ago we were contacted by Edgar (aka “The Kettle Rumbles”) telling us he was inspired by our Kilimanjaro Trek and introduced to us his Three Cups of Tea Book Project. The idea was that we would read Greg Mortenson’s book Three Cups of Tea and then hand it on to someone else. It was simple [...]
I’ve been thinking of writing a lot recently and every time I think of writing, there are so many things I could potentially write on that I end up writing nothing. I know…weird. ‘So today’ (to quote aillidh in my blog roll) I thought that I should just put in a few lines even if [...]
