Overland with Kids

We are very lucky to have our health and a lovely family. These facts coupled with our home, ability to be able to work and live in a well-developed country are nothing short of blessings. We are under no illusions that whilst on our travels we will probably hanker for the familiarity of home, those creature comforts and that we will keep thinking about how lucky we are as we make natural comparisons with some of the especially poorer countries and people we encounter along our route.

There are a couple of projects we are interested in currently. One is the Moldovan Street Childrens Project and the partnership our children’s school have with a school in Moldova. We are following the fund-raising and benefits which are very positive. During the May Half Term Holiday, one of the teachers actually visited and re-counted her experiences via a newsletter which we thought was fantastic. The whole school are involved with fund-raising and in following the great progress being made. Additional help and support is required and we think that as well as visiting Moldova as part of our route, we could make a positive contribution in support of the project ourselves. More news to follow on this.

The second charity is called ‘The Smile Train’ a charitable organisation involved with giving a child with cleft a second chance. Since March 2000, the charity has performed 328,320 surgeries and is involved with 75 countries. We are going to investigate further and again more news to follow on this.

Doing the trip for charity is a big under-taking and comes with a degree of commitment and responsibility and should not be under-taken lightly.  We are going to discuss together as a family before making any hard and fast decisions

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