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February 13. Damn you so much, consumerism.
There are still moments that we can have revelations. Seldom do they occur but all the more meaningful is the trace they leave behind in our minds. It is so powerful because of it makes us feel related to the very essence of being more than anything else, albeit in a negative way. The kind ...
February 7. Start Making sense O blind poet
Imagine a crowded market, piles of vegetables, leeks, turnips, potatoes, onions everywhere, a meager dog with a fishbone in its mouths slips under a shaggy table. The sharp smell of overripe pineapples blends with the dustclouds between the stalls. Coarse voices reiterate their merchandize and their mantras feel comforting. An old hunchback offers dried fruits ...
February 6. The Virtual Foodchain of Value Creation
This is a tricky one. Have you just read the title of this post? It has been designed to captivate your attention and hence to captivate some of your time, some of your thoughts, some of your being. It has its own minute place in what it denotes: the foodchain of value creation. Now what ...
February 1. Brief summary of a time seemingly lost
The timespan between the loss of my glasses in Kuala Lumpur and the now is a virtual vacuum. I don't have the time to write a detailed document about it. The reader could look at charitytravel.blogspot.com and transsiberian.kindmankind.net. Surely, there have been a few noteworthy anecdotes and I will intertwine them with my future writing ...
Paths of Kindness
Dorogy Dobra (Paths of Kindness)
January 13th, 2011. Ekaterinburg.Operating an NGO in Russia, especially beyong the Petersburg-Moscow axis, is quite a challenge. Paths of Kindness is a remarkable organization in the capital of the Urals owrking with underprivileged children. They organize weekend excursions, special education, and facilitate responsible adoption.



Name:Camillus HouseAim:To eradicate ...
July 1. Still in Malaysia.
Summer is well underway and we crash into a Malaysian July, about to leave the northern hemisphere and turn things around. My memory of this day is faded, but I think we have visited an huge cave complex, photographed the golden statue with restless pigeons swarming around it. And the stray monkeys clambering on the ...
Charity Travel
Charity Travel (CT) is an independent large adventurous journey around the world, combining exciting traveling with supporting small-scale charity projects, thereby inspiring other (young) travelers to follow the example. Charity Travel wants to show that nowadays it is possible to bypass large bureaucracies and individually work with small charities that really need help. The emphasis ...
Ideas
A lot of what Charity Travel is doing amounts to spreading expertise and good ideas. Whether a mind-changing broad insight or a smart technological tweak, ideas are invaluable yet free as the air we breath.

To underline this, we present on these pages a series of creative ideas from various fields.

Feel free ...
June 30. Forest Voices.
Remember the day I shouted to the man, whose lean and clean English intimidated me so  much, because I mistakenly thought I had lost the ticket and he wouldn't let me on the bus? It happened yesterday, it happened through my conscious mind, it keeps happening as temper is hard to overcome.

Meeting and ...