by Communications | Feb 7, 2017 | Learning Trips, People
It’s good to be back. You may remember me, Katie Garner, from such chronicles as ‘How to eat your way around New York’ in 2010, or ‘How not to navigate the Congo’ in 2012, or ‘Various shades of coffee shop’ in Portland, Oregon 2015. Now, I’m back with East Africa...
by Kelly Bean, Executive Director | Dec 29, 2016 | African Road Projects, News and Updates, People
“Hello, my name is Parfaite Nimbona, and I am a single mom and a member of Pilgrims VICOBA group in Burundi. Over the last five years I have tried multiple small businesses (selling clothes, women’s products…) but because they all seemed to fail in the first...
by Timira Cobbs | Dec 22, 2016 | African Road Projects, News and Updates, People
As a donor and volunteer for African Road, it doesn’t get much better than this: Pulling up to the Togetherness Cooperative in person for the first time, feeling the breeze, seeing the view, smelling the farm, and knowing it really is real. On Tuesday, I was...
by Guest Author | Oct 12, 2016 | African Road Projects, Learning Trips, People
Meet Leigh Harvey, longtime friend of African Road, Women’s Bakery Champion, and all-around rock star fundraiser. Leigh has been a supporter of African Road since the early days. In 2010, she gathered some friends* to travel to Rwanda with Kelly Bean and went back...
by Guest Author | Jul 13, 2016 | African Road Projects, Learning Trips, News and Updates, People
Imagine that you are invited to a country halfway across the world. You are eagerly welcomed by new friends to learn about a different way of life. Friendships are formed, ideas are born, occasionally embarrassing cultural missteps made, and lives are forever changed....
