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I was standing at the top of the hill near my small house in Fundong, watching kids as young as three years old carried bowls on their heads filled with water from the dirty stream below. The women and older children marched up from the stream, balancing like circus performers large five gallon containers on […]

Yesterday Leo and I visited a remote village named Nchuo Bissi. I should have realized if we were walking down a mountain, we would have to climb up the mountain to get back. But at that moment I just wanted to arrive at our destination. Leo does a lot of volunteer work, giving free seeds […]

Hopeless in Cameroon The first day in Fundong I spent riding around on the back of Leos motorcycle, searching for a decent living situation. Leo still could not understand why I was not satisfied with the dark, damp basement he had chosen for me. The places I wanted to rent where all taken by government […]

Another Africa: Cameroon I had pushed my departure date ahead a week for Cameroon, having used as an excuse unfinished work at home. But I was lacking the passion and excitiment for this trip. I had committed to come over and help a young Welsh guy run an environmental project he had started last year,located […]