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2 Day Project Work 24th - 25th

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  Sorry not posted for a couple of days, we wanted to group these 2 days together. Big shout out to all our readers, I know we have readers from all over the world. G-Day to those is Oz.  Day 1 We spent the last two days volunteering at a local charity, so only seemed best to write one big piece on our 2 days there. So a bit of background to the charity, the charity project is called “Dar El Bir Ouai Ihssane”. It’s a huge community project based in central Marrakesh. Hidden behind the rows of shops is an oasis for learning and respite. You wouldn’t know it was there. The complex is split into 2 parts. They have this huge area for people with mental health issues and the elderly and frail. This complex has around 1000 men and 800 women living there. It’s like a mini village, with kitchens and a hospital. Physio rooms and gardens. The other part is an educational centre to help get the children off the streets. In total, around 500 children are learning life skills here as well as gettin

Goodbye Sahara

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  Today has had a strange feel to it. Our morning wake up has not been like the others. For starters, we had to be up, packed and ready for breakfast for 6:30am so we could leave camp for 7 prompt (Abdul didn’t get that last memo!!) We actually started to wake up around 5:15am and slowly emerged from our tents with head torches armed ready to blind whoever you chose to speak to. Getting packed and ready in the dark was a new challenge for us all. A struggle for some more than others, shorts on inside out!!  We managed to empty our tents, bowels and bladders one last time in the dessert. A quick breakfast of freshly baked doughnuts and a bowl of coffee. Our tents and supplies put on the camels and for the first time, we all set off as one big group with the sun rising behind us as we trekked to our final destination. We hardly spoke a sound as we covered those last kilometres, all wrapped up for the freezing cold desert morning. The black skies slowly lifting as the sun rose.  We approa