Ethiopia 2011
Bellow are my posts from Ethiopia – I do hope you enjoy reading them and do take the time to check out Global Care to find out how you can help the work there .
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 in his village supported by Global Care to build a pre-school. This gives the kids a chance to succeed in there education and stand on their own two feet. “Hope” has dreams of becoming an airline pilot. To be able to even have that dream is incredible. Buy the song and support the project. Ta”
Download from iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hope-single/id512943076
Download from Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hope/dp/B007O4JF1A/ref=sr_shvl_album_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1335780081&sr=301-4
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 classrooms as well.
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 you get up at 4am, as ready as you’ll ever be to set off and you have to sit around and wait for a taxi. So begins my trip to Ethiopia and my first ever visit to Africa. more »
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 off. more »
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 20 minutes waiting for the girl to finally come and tell us that one of the bags should have been there yesterday and the other would arrive later. more »
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 a log after that. Woke up just before the alarm and realized it was Sunday. It dawned on me that as visitors we would be asked to say something at the church. Made a mental note and headed off for breakfast to a local café. more »
