Author: leggini

Creating recycled gardens

First week in Cambodia and many projects to get stuck into.  Our primary partner organisation we are assisting here in Battambang is Children’s Action for Development (CAD).    Children’s Action for Development (CAD) is committed to providing...

Hot hot hot, dealing with the heat of Cambodia

I can’t possibly begin to describe this heat. It is at times unbearable.  40 degrees.  Humid.  It is exhausting.  It is debilitating.  It is sticky, sweaty, itchy, wet.  Imagine your body feeling like it...

Day 3 in Cambodia – by Z

First we arrived in Siem Reap it was a 3 hour drive to Battambang in a air con freshened car.  Well it was hot anyway!  It had leather seats.  Then we arrived at the...

Day 3 in Cambodia – by Big O

On Sunday 25th May we arrived in Cambodia.  Then we took a 3 hour drive to Battambang.  In Battambang we work on projects at CAD centres.  We painted tyres and made them into plant...

At last, the time to talk

At last, the time to talk

There is so much more time to TALK. To take time to answer the questions and chat  – in a shop, at home, on the phone with friends. No longer this voice in your head...

Cutting the cord, quitting work

We have now been on the road for a few weeks – not quite Asia, but we have packed up and left New Zealand where we had been living for 4 1/2 years and...

Transitions of a midlife stew

Some would say we’re stuck in a midlife stew, but I would argue it is a conscious decision to spend the next 40 years shaping our lives so we can feel happier about what...