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Amanda Lindhout hasn’t forgotten Somalia

May 16, 2010
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It was announced Friday that Amanda Lindhout has started the Global Enrichment Foundation (GEF). Here is the stated vision of GEF from their website launched this past weekend:
The Global Enrichment Foundation believes in developing strengths already within women to assist them in changing their lives. We believe that building stronger communities, cultivating leadership and promoting peace through education are goals which can be achieved though proper support. With the [...]

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Blogging Africa – Ory Okolloh and the Globe and Mail

May 9, 2010
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On Monday May 10, the Globe and Mail’s world news site will be guest edited by a Kenyan blogger named Ory Okolloh. In the Globe’s words…
Ms. Okolloh has been invited to edit our world site in order to share with readers a view of Africa and African news not normally seen in Canada — “The Africa You Don’t Know.” We want to present our readers with a full experience of what the average news day [...]

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Saimaluu Tash and Kyrgyzstan’s Future in Tourism

May 5, 2010
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Last week I posted the detailed reports from Slava on the situation currently unraveling in Kyrgyzstan. This post takes from those reports and adds in my personal experiences in Kyrgyzstan when I visited in 2007.
“Did you hear about Kyrgyzstan?” was the message that came across Skype from Slava Koshelev in Moscow. It was April 7, 2010 and almost three years since my time in Kyrgyzstan. Slava was the Kyrgyz tour operator that took me there. [...]

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Guest Post from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

April 25, 2010
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This is a guest post by Slava Koshelev who works in Bishkek and Moscow as a director for a tourism company called Advantour. He has been working in tourism in Kyrgyzstan and Moscow for 11 years, and was born in Bishkek.
His post is in two parts. Part One is his first report from Bishkek from mid last week, and Part Two is an update from a few days afterwards. Slava gives us an excellent [...]

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Outdated but Calculated – Bicycle Licensing Debate in Toronto

April 19, 2010
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Last week Toronto Mayoral candidate, Giorgio Mammoliti, announced that, if elected, he would introduce bicycle licensing as a way to help pay the cost of proposed new cycling lanes. This is an idea that has been raised before, and as the City of Toronto’s own website clearly states, ‘studies have concluded that licensing is not worth it.’
Besides this recent bicycle licensing idea, Mammoliti also proposed in 2007 that the army should be called in to [...]

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A travel and news chronicle from the places my bicycle takes me. It’s not a cycling blog per se. It’s a record of things I encounter along the way – in my travels with Tour d’Afrique Ltd., and through my own experiences at home and abroad.
This is a personal blog and has no official affiliation with Tour d’Afrique Ltd. or anyone other than myself. The views and opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of anyone else.

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