Gap Year Volunteering Abroad
Selfies, Facebook Likes, or a local girlfriend are quite tempting reasons to volunteer abroad. If any of these are your reasons for volunteering abroad, then I advise you to stay in your home country and have a cookie. A little harsh? Maybe! But I am quite the blunt guy.
Nyanga Hiking Trip: Overnight Tour of the Eastern Highlands
Starting out at 5am was a daunting idea at first but something I knew was necessary if we were going to reach Nyangani Mountain (3-4 hour drive). It is not allowed to go up the mountain afternoon because there is a greater risk of disappearing. Yes! people have been known to disappear, and our guide, Stewart was quick to mention that the last person to disappear was an ‘Indian guy’ in 2014.
Day out at Twala Animal Sanctuary: WHEN ACTION MEETS COMPASSION
Zimbabwe has a few hidden gems, not just to tourists, but to locals as well. I have often highlighted some of these on blog posts I put out every once in a while. Twala Animal Sanctuary on the other hand, is hiding in plain sight. Nestled in between the huge trees, wild bushes, flowing streams […]
CULTURE IS A RIGHT – WORLD REFUGEE WEEK COMMEMORATION
I met Marina Warner, the British polymathic literary scholar, novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer in the Norwegian city of Bergen, after she accepted her Holberg Prize in 2015. She said something that struck me, and I have not been able to let it go ever since, ‘culture is a freedom, and it is dangerous for people not to have a […]
Dinner Fundraiser For The Zimbabwean Wildlife
Tracey Huggil, (Public Relations & Fundraising) of AWARE Trust, called on our Business Development Executive, Wesley Maraire to get volunteers together to entertain at a Christmas dinner fundraiser for Rhino & Elephants conservation efforts in Zimbabwe. Tiritose Sustainable Travel got together a group of performing artists to sing ‘African Christmas’ as well as a Christmas […]
Endless Opportunities For Our First Intern
Katie Heywood was the first intern we placed here in Harare in October and she hit the ground sprinting when she started at Columbus DDB (our partner that rocks), a marketing and PR company. On the first day of her marketing and communications internship, she got straight into an implementation meeting for the launch of […]