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Grassroot Soccer Training: what up sustainability!
Every now and then, you’ll find a diamond in the rough out here in rural South Africa – somebody who wants to be a role model for the kids, who wants to make a difference and who sees that there are...
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Grassroot Soccer Camp Photos
Paige and I were running around like chickens with our heads cut off at camp (speaking of which, I have seen one in my yard and can attest to how true this hyperbole is), so I didn’t get as many...
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Month 11: oh, so THAT’S what the Peace Corps is all about
I swear, if I had known how much I’d hear the term “sustainability” after joining the Peace Corps I would have kept tally from day one. PCVs are only supposed to be doing projects that will keep going...
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Books for Africa books are packed and shipped!
Thanks to everyone who supported Project Amandla - our partnership with the nonprofit Books for Africa to ship 22,000 library books out to 30 rural schools. I hope you got the thank you card I sent you...
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Books, books, books: support and flexibility
Remember our library project? Well, it’s FINALLY happening. Twenty-five thousand library books for 30 rural communities will be delivered to my primary school tomorrow. I have a headache, am a little...
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Books, books, books: unloading!
Five hundred and sixty boxes arrived at my school today! Thanks to the help of the Battlefields PCVs, David Rattray Foundation employees, my school and the secondary school we unloaded all the boxes in...
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Books, books, books: sorting!
I originally planned to invite any PCV involved in our library book project to my site to sort books with the Mayfields. In the past, PCVs have taken all the books out of the boxes onto tarps and then...
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Month 16: expect the unexpected and never doubt
I always prepare for the unexpected. I always have a back-up plan. I enter a project blindly, usually with few expectations. I try to never doubt, but it’s not always possible. In the Peace Corps...
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A month in photos: May 2014
Library renovating and the FINAL PRODUCT! We’re DONE! Library opening ceremony at my school to thank all the donors that made our library possible (the David Rattray Foundation for the furniture and...
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There’s no “fun” in fundraising, but I’m a believer
After the Peace Corps approved Project Amandla’s grant – our Books for Africa project to ship 22,000 books to South African schools – I figured fundraising would be smooth rollin’. A huge group of PCVs...
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