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Check out what our volunteers had to say after completing a new classroom in Tanzania.  The team of 10 volunteers spent 6 weeks working and living with the community. Follow the link to our Project Partners the Livingstone Tanzania Trust. “With only one day left in Babati, Tanzania, I cannot help but think back over […]

Photo’s coming soon, watch this space! What follows is a summary of some of the fantastic things we have got up to in the last few weeks, mostly taken from James with a bit of Tom and a sprinkling of Sophie:   The classroom and office that barely more than a month ago were nothing […]

Not sure where Vicky left off but i think it was around Wednesday. So Wednesday afternoon went to the men’s prison which was pretty scary. Loads of little kids visiting their dads, was pretty upsetting. We went to visit a guy called Raymond who looked like a cross between the colonel from KFC and Albert […]

Since touching down in Kilimanjaro, the impact of Africa has been amazing! After spending our first night in Arusha we had an incredible 3 hour drive through the Tanzanian countryside where we caught our first glimpse of Masai, roaming camels (very odd for East Africa!) and breath taking views of the rift valley.  We spent […]

Friday 16th January. As it happened. 15:00 Further to yet another back breaking day on site, Mr. Alex (the head of the school board) proposes to the team that a Friday night football match should be played. Quest Overseas was to provide a team of Volunteers both male and female to challenge the might of […]

Just for Andy…the first pictures of the very first Quest Overseas tomatoes. It looks to be a bumper crop out in the Quest greenhouse with a whopping 6 individual tomatoes merrily growing away at the moment. Lets hope these are the first of many!

For anyone who has a Facebook account (or any online presence for that matter), you will have received at least the one message about a friend or relative doing some crazy fitness challenge. Marathons, triathlons, epic cycle journeys, who says we live in an obese Britain?! Anyway, it seems this “challenge fever” has hit our […]

350.org was founded by U.S. author Bill McKibben, who wrote “The End of Nature” in 1989, a book regarded as the first one written for the general public on climate change. It is based on a statistic provided by scentific research, and backed by climate experts and many governments. 350 parts per million of CO2 […]

As of yesterday lunchtime the 28 finalists for the new Seven Wonders of the World were announced! These were chosen from a list of 77 nominees by the New7Wonders Panel of Experts. Among the 28 final choices are the Amazon River and Rainforest, Iguazu Falls in Argentina and Brazil, Angel Falls, The Galapagos, The Grand […]

Virgin Money is launching an online fundraising site which will be the official online giving engine of the London Marathon, potentially sidelining Justgiving.The financial arm of the Virgin empire, Virgin Money has launched Virgin Money Giving, a website which will enable individuals to raise money for charities registered on the website for the London Marathon […]