The Eastleigh News published the following on 20 Februaryhttp://www.eastleighnews.co.uk/2018/02/sholing-students-make-monumental-difference-to-lives-of-typhoon-victims/
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Videos of the trip
Thanks to all who came to the celebration evening on Saturday. The videos of the trip are now online and you can see them on the YouTube page below: https://www.youtube.com/user/SholingPhilippines I’ll embed them on the homepage when I have the time and patience to fire up the now ancient laptop I made the website on. …
mission complete
Well, what a journey once again. Having spent the last 15 days with a fantastic group of young people and a few oldies as well, its back to the other reality of life back here in the lakes. It always takes me a few days and sometimes weeks to come back down to earth following …
Reflection of the project!
Well that’s the Sholing Phillippines Project over for the third time, and I can promise you now that it is as heartbreaking as it was the first time it ended for me back in 2012. However this time was different, the first reason being that I had to say goodbye to not one place but …
Tacbloban
Well I could just tell you every little detail of what we’ve been up to here over the last week, but there’s no need we’ve had a brilliant successful week full of blood, sweat and tears. There are two parts to this weeks challenge, the first being: The Lighthouse which is an absolutely gorgeous building …
Daleo’s daily blog-day 14
Wow, what an incredible final day in the Philippines. We started off with our standard Lighthouse breakfast (Lighthouse food has been a fitting replacement to Mr Poons for the second half of our trip) before heading off to the Talosa school for the grand opening of the new playground. I was really proud to to …
Daleo’s not even close to daily blog-Days 11-13
OK, so I didn’t quite manage do do a blog each day this time, so a quick update on Tues-Thurs. I spent Tuesday down at the Talosa playground with the 2 Mick’s and several members of the team. Tuesday saw the christening of Rhianonshroom, Imoshroom, Robshroom and Priyshroom, 4 parts of the playground installed by …
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Freeza signing off
Well here we are, the students are all in bed 11-30 with a 5-30 get up time for tomorrow before we start our 30 plus hour trip home. Today was just an absolutely wonderful day. We had 2 great opening ceremonies at the two playgrounds followed by highly emotional play times with the kids. The …
Freeza update
Hi all. Roast lamb does sound like the best call, hope you are getting that Mrs Freeza. After feeling rather stressed yesterday that we would not complete our tasks today has proved yet again what a team we have. The weather has not been kind. Mural painting on both sites under tarpaulins which create a …
Freezas update
Hi All Just a quick update to let you all know that we are still ok and having a good time. The students continue to be impressive with their total commitment to the work on the project. Despite being very tired they are still up for the challenges they face each day. We are at …
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