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Our travel plan was to fly first to Madagascar, then fly to Kenya and from there to travel only over land to Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa and stop in Mozambique where there are our projects. We started our travel late in the night on 30th of June. Our flight for Madagascar was from Paris on 1st of July, so we had to fly very early in the morning from Norway (Rygge Airport) to reach in good time for the flight that will take us in country of mora-mora (slowly-slowly). We were so eager to leave that we decided to go one day earlier and spend the night in the airport. But we also can say that actually we didn't have too much choices, since it was the only way to be on time for our flight to Paris. We took the last train to the airport to reduce our waiting time. We thought that is a very good idea and probably everybody will agree with us. We knew that from train station to the airport will be no bus at one o'clock in the night, but we said that will be no problem for us to walk 30-40 minutes until the airport. To call for a taxi it was not an option for us, since the prices in Norway are top dollars. So, we started to walk to the airport with 20-25 kg on our sholders. First problem was to find the right way. Even if some of us could say that they know the way, at one o'clock in the night we started to have doubts, and to miss the road carrying 25 kg backpacks will make you think twice before make a decision. Somehow we didn't miss the road but it took us more than two hours and 6-7 km to find Ryyge Airport. Likely Sofia wasn't with us, otherwise she will die before having the chance to enjoy the Travel Period (Sofia was to fly to Palestine and meet us in Kenya three week later). With some luck, and some help from Laszlo, Lāsma managed to survive. Everybody were extremely tired and with feet pain and small wounds. After the cold Norwegian spring we arrive in Palestine, hot weather and strong security checking in the airport. After 20 minutes of a lot of question we were out and the taxi was waiting for us. From Tel Aviv to Deheishe the feeling was 35; degrees in hard and dry desert. On the way we changed the car for security reasons, from the regular taxi to a personal car: a dark van with smoked windows. From the very beginning we realized that the situation in the area and also the obstacles to enter and live in Palestinian Authority are made difficult.
Arriving in Deheishe our first feeling wasn’t like arriving in a typically refugee camp (people living in tends). Deheishe is a slum of refugees from 45 villages in the occupied Palestinian territory. Deheishe refugee camp is located in West Bank Palestine, near Bethlehem. This camp was established in 1949 on less than 1square kilometer of land leased from Jordan government. After 60 years the population increased to approximately 50.000 people and also the size of the camp, nowadays the camp has between 1 and 1.5 square kilometers. I started the project in Dausa farmers club in first of June and I begin to work in Biogas activities in Mandawar, in the beginning I knew just a little about biogas,” I remember from my first year of quimics class long time ago, my teacher told us about it and the scientist that first thought of that in the time end up in to being arrest cause the farmers that use it stop paying electricity and the government said that he was decreasing the taxes of government and it was a bad idea, after he was release and they gave him a prize cause it was a genial idea after all and biogas plantslegal to farmers and was install in a lot of zoos.”
Podívejte se na 4 reporty od Janise z Lotyšska, který pracoval v Indii od října 2013 do března 2014. Green action, rarmer's club, community development, homeless projects.
So you go from Europe to Africa thinking about living in the great savannah wilderness with some remote villages around. And you find yourself in the middle of high grass and trees, everything green, just a village house here and there, surrounded by mountains at a few hours distance. But you are working with computers all day.
That’s how our volunteer story in Zambia starts. Mkushi College of Education was started by DAPP to provide teachers for rural areas. Zambia has one of the youngest and fastest growing populations in the world - half of its entire people are 17 years young or younger – and it needs an ever growing number of schools and teachers, especially in its rural areas. The College of Education is placed 10 km away from Mkushi on a red dust road cutting through the high grass called by the locals “bush”. The local people are mostly farmers so corn fields replaced the bush here and there. As your car bumps across a river you see more trees and bush, corn fields, a few houses, directions signs for three churches and one school. Plus the sign board for Mkushi College of Education. Our project is situated in the suburb Gurgaon, one of the most expensive cities in India, thanks to its industries and enormous shopping malls. Nevertheless the Academy is located in a remote area near several slums in Surat Nagar, an area quite far from all the crowd and the noise of the city, and area full of moors -with green or black stinky water, in which the pigs, are taking their baths freely und undisturbed- and buildings which seem to be either on the way to be finished or to be demolished.We live 30m from Main Centre, in a guest house where there are living 6 other teachers from the project and because we are working together, we have almost the same schedule, with the exception of their early mornings habits(mornings which start at 5 am with loud television).
After Iran, Indonesia is our second main destination. It holds the 4th largest population in the world and it’s rapidly changing into a modern industrial developed country. It has an overwhelmingly rich history and culture: over 300 ethnicities live on Indonesia’s 17.000 islands and more than 300 languages are spoken. From its paradise seas, to lush rainforests to hundreds of active volcanoes, Indonesia’s nature holds the 2nd largest biodiversity in the world.
Can the modern developing society, the traditional cultures and the pristine environments coexist in Indonesia? Our investigation aims to take us across the Indonesian life, from urban Jakarta to wild rainforests; it will give us an overview of Indonesian society as well as an inside knowledge to problems that affect not only Indonesia, but our entire world. Because of Indonesia’s sheer size – from Banda Aceh in Sumatra to Jayapura in East Papua it’s 13 hours by flight or 6000km on roads and boats – we decided to focus on a single island: Java. It is the most populated – 110 million out of Indonesia’s 240 million – the most developed and it holds the capital city Jakarta and the informal cultural capital Jogjakarta. So let’s dive into Indonesia’s heart. The first things I heard about Malaysia were not positive. A relatively high crime rate, a large number of tourists robbed, car crash, dirt and indifference. Moreover, Johor Bahru, the first town on the border, was known in the past as a vanity city, with mobs, gambling and prostitutes.
Fortunately, our statistics were old and in the meantime the situation had changed for the better. The government took action in eradicating corruption, imposing drastic laws and punishments, cleaned the country of mobs and prepared the city for a peaceful existence. Moreover, tourist programs have been successful, as 2014 is considered the year in which Malaysia brings the highest number of tourists in the country, giving all its best in terms of tradition, religion and beauty of the country and its people. Thus, while fearfully reaching Malacca, a city which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage, our surprise was huge. Beijing
Monster between cities, Beijing offers to the eyes a giant show of urbanism and colors. One thing that visitors- who want to know something about Beijing- should see is the view from the plane; when you travel by plane you can really see how big this city is. And this can offer you an image about where you are really going. From a plane you can see how the urbanization is shaped in Beijing: areas covered just by flats which have mostly the same shape but different colors. You can also see areas covered only by houses which are- how I could later discover- mostly in poor condition and pressed together in such a manner that those neighbors know everything about each other. But you can also find combination of huge flats with poor small houses, mixture which has not so many features common with some urbanization. Another modern symbol is the new center which is created by skyscrapers and other buildings signed by the modern architecture. Skyscrapers are not so big like in Shanghai and Hong Kong but the city is growing up very fast and with it also is the number of new buildings. |
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