Archive for Ethiopia
Hope – New Single Out NOW
Rob’s new single, “Hope”, Is OUT NOW “In Ethiopia in November last year I met this 8 year old boy. His dad died of AIDs, his mum was HIV, they lived in a one room mud hut with his three sisters. There’s no sanitation and they have no sustainable income. But there’s a project more »
Teacher Paid For
Huge thanks to y’all for supporting the shows through the last part of 2011. Glad to say that we raised enough to pay for Ethiopian Schools to pay a teachers wage for a year. It’s a great start and by the time 2012 is done we hope to have paid for a couple of new more »
Thursday 22nd September 2011
I’m going to be honest with you; I’m not an early morning person. I used to drive a lorry for a living, which meant I had to get up at 4am on a fairly regular basis but back then, I’d get a coffee, fall into the cab and set off. It’s a different thing when more »
Friday 23rd September 2011
Slept like a log last night which surprised me. I normally get the jitters about little beasts, cockroaches and the like, coming into my room but after sitting up to 11 catching up on my iTunes listening, I realised I hadn’t even seen an ant. Sprayed my pillow with tropical inset spray anyway and dropped more »
Saturday 24th September 2011
Sometimes you get days that seem to go on forever. Today has been one such day, partly to do with having to get up at 5:30am. Paul called the airport to find out about his luggage and got no reply so we decided to go and see if the bags had arrived anyway. We spent more »
Sunday 25th September 2011
I got a bit homesick last night. It doesn’t happen very often but sometimes I realize how far away I am and you think about what’s going on back home and, well, you know it starts a spiral of thoughts. So at 1am in Ethiopia I called home and it was all OK. Slept like more »
Monday 26th September 2011
I never thought that I’d come all the way to Africa to film a toilet. This morning I stood in a field filming two workmen putting the walls up around four pit latrines. I get all the good jobs you know. This really was a serious business though. One of the project that Addis Kadan more »
Tuesday 27th September 2011
Up at 6 and ready to roll. I had a big spider in my room last night so I buried myself in my sewn up sheet and didn’t get to sleep until 1am. Relieved to wake up in on piece!
