Archive for October, 2008
Feeling Refreshed
Having just come back off an absolutely fantastic holiday to Kenya I am feeling refreshed and ready for a new challenge. What to do though…
Well, on Tuesday I picked up a new client who is just starting a new business of his own; and today I discovered a great website and I have published my first photo book.
Blurb – www.blurb.com – allows you to upload and publish your own books which can be made public or kept for just your own guests. I have made a small book of photos taken whilst on my holiday and have published it to the public as I want to be able to make a little profit and donate this profit to Wherever the Need, a charity which provides an holistic approach to the provision and use of water and eco-sanitation toilets.
Their core aim is to provide and conserve clean drinking water for people and, where possible, livestock, crops and trees in Africa by combining this with the building of eco-sanitation toilets, which is vital to the good health of both people and the planet.
Kenya is a vast counrty where most people live in rural areas with limited fresh water. I was appalled to see children as young as 5 years old carrying 3 or 4 1-gallon containers a distance of 2 miles or so from their village to collect fresh water, with some people resorting to collecting rain water from puddles and ditches. Most villages do not have piped water or toilets on mains sewers; most of the villages we passed had communal toilets with no piped water or mains sewers! Something we in the UK take for granted, and probably waste more water in a day than some of these villages have in a week.
Please take a look at my book, My Safari, and if you like the pictures, please purchase a copy and I will donate the profits to enable Wherever the Need to carry on their good work.