Since arriving in South Africa Erica and I have been striving to find a balance between our daily routine, fun tourist type activities and meaningful experiences – one of the ways we have discovered to both have fun and a meaningful experience has been by volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.

During Erica’s time here in 2004-05 she was sponsored by CIDA to work as a volunteer crew leader with Habitat for Humanity. It was a memorable position and as such we made it one of our main goa...

Continue reading ...

On Wednesday Erica and I were invited to go see the children of Ibhongolwethu perform “Africa, One Tribe” at the Khayelitsha’s OR Tambo Hall as a World AIDS Day event. The Ibhongolwethu project is a series of circus arts workshops enabled by Medecins San Frontiers (MSF) and Zip Zap Circus School that is sponsored by Cirque du Soleil.

It was a beautiful break in our day. The hall, which is absolutely beautiful and perfectly suited for such events, was completely buzzing with people, musi...
Continue reading ...