Round up The first stage of my charity trek across Sri Lanka (Galle to Kandy) is complete after 18 days and we’re now back home in the UK. Whilst our activity out there finished yesterday, …
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Blog 8 – From Rambas Reserve to climbing Adam’s Peak
Rambas Reserve Following our day’s trekking, mostly on the road today, we discovered by chance the Rambas Reserve in Kalatuwawa. Its position is 2km deep into a forest reservation and we found it almost unbelievable …
Continue readingFINAL PRE-TREK UPDATE …… AND WE’RE OFF…
Send off supper Last weekend Their Future Today (TFT) organised a ’send off’ supper for Gill and me at Indian Zest in Sunbury and we had a fab evening. Lots of amazing friends and TFT …
Continue reading10 days to go! Sri Lanka trek update
Fundraising update 74% of my target now raised – that’s a whopping £7,400 – refer to blog of 1st March for the detail and how it’s being used. Gill’s and my travel documents are now …
Continue readingKirimetiya gets connected in more ways than one
Two weeks’ ago electricity connection arrived at Kirimetiya pre-school. The school is set in a village in a remote ex-tea plantation area high in the hills of central Sri Lanka. I wrote in detail about …
Continue readingThe magic multiplier – educate a woman, educate a community and a generation – from an almost forgotten village in the tea plantation hills
Kirimetiyawatte, abbreviated to Kirimetiya, and even further and affectionately so to Kiri, is a remote village high in the mountains of the central province of Sri Lanka. Whilst only about an hour’s drive from the …
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