Our final day in the office until next Wednesday, we just wanted to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and all the best for 2012. Also, here are our office hours for the next week
Friday 23rd December - 9am - 2pm
Monday 26th December - CLOSED
Tuesday 27th December - CLOSED
Wednesday 28th December - 9am - 6pm
Thursday 29th December - 9am - 6pm
Friday 30th December - 9am - 1pm
Monday 2nd January - CLOSED
Tuesday 3rd January - 9am - 6pm
Then we are back to normal.
Have a great break!
Last Sunday night, Quest volunteers past and present dusted off their glad rags and headed to the Annual Reunion Ball at the Artesian Well in Clapham.....
It was a brilliant night, where the volunteers and staff alike got a chance to celebrate their successes and hard work on the projects, immortalised in photos and with prizes for the best shots from the year. Take a look at the winners:
And who could forget the first ever Quest music video competition...check out some of the entries here.
As well as the tasty paella, crepes, and some excellent dance moves, we also had happening a fantastic charity casino, from Diamond Fun Casino, caricatures from Mark Reeve, and our charity raffle. The raffle had some generous prizes donated from generous companies, including Orb360,DeltaForce, Rampant Sporting and Lush. The grand prize of a place on a choice of our summer projects was won by one of our Kenya summer volunteers from this year - congrats Hamish!
Thanks to everyone for making it a great night!
A really lovely message and set of images sent through by Joe Kioko at the Africa Sand Dam Foundation with whom we work in Kenya, hand in hand with project partners Excellent:
"Greetings from Africa Sand Dam Foundation, Mtito Andei, Kenya. On behalf of the entire ASDF Fraternity, I take this opportunity to thank you for the expedition team that worked with us this year. The team was young, energetic and amazing! We all enjoyed every minute that we worked with them.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous new year 2012!
Kind regards,
Joe Kioko
Africa Sand Dam Foundation"
And a very Merry Christmas to you too, Joe and the ASDF team!
It was great to see so many of you at the ball last Sunday. We hope that you all had a great night and that the morning after was not too painful.
Thank you all again for your hard work.
So to start with here is the winning video from The Kenya team.
We will blog a new one each day till Christmas.
Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Quest
No one could doubt that 2011 has been an eventful year in global events - with the ‘Arab Spring' spreading from Tunisia across North Africa and the Middle East, the killing of Osama bin Laden, News International, and deepening economic woes with the Eurozone Crisis.
Here at Quest Overseas, it's also been eventful, if on a slightly smaller scale! We've seen the sand dam cement mixing record broken in Kenya, bones broken in Bolivia, Snow White & the Seven dwarves glimpsed at Machu Picchu, not to mention the first Quest team to reach the summit of Kilimanjaro...
Our Annual Reunion Ball with tales and photos from 2011 is coming up this Sunday, but the clever folks at the Guardian have unfortunately beaten us to marking the year's happenings in the best way we've possibly ever seen ... in Lego!!
Why not make your own Lego scene from your project and we'll stick it up on our Facebook page for the world to admire?
