Overland with Kids

The children’s author Lauren Child (of Charlie and Lola fame), has provided us non-exclusive rights to perform a series of amateur puppet show performances, based on her story of That Pesky Rat.
The main purpose of the shows is to raise funds for our children’s school in support of Educational Aid for Moldovan Street Children’s Projects - [...]

During 2008, the children’s author Lauren Child (of Charlie and Lola fame) teamed up with UNESCO in support of its Programme for the Education of Children In Need campaign by creating a special edition of her widely acclaimed book That Pesky Rat.
We are supporting Lauren’s work with UNESCO and she has kindly provided permission for [...]

It was Jessica’s 8th birthday a few days ago and following research on suitable cameras capable of taking video, good quality snapshots and easy handling/storage for her age, we decided to invest more money than planned and opted for a Canon Ixus 80IS. We purchased as part of a printer package combination set offered by [...]

The childrens school held a digital photography workshop at school last weekend entitled ‘how I like to learn’. Jessica was able to experience using a camera and allowed to take photographs and compile into a presentation using anything she felt appropriate. Other media such as PSPs and Apple Mac’s etc. was also made available. It was [...]

Jessica has been given an early Christmas gift of a year’s monthly subscription to this magazine (thank you Margaret and Alan!). Us adults have been reading it too! Packed full of interesting information aimed at primary age school children, photos and posters and things to do. To find out more, their website is www.ngkids.co.uk

Really exciting news is that the children’s author Lauren Child has just advised that she is happy for us to use Pesky as our logo from her That Pesky Rat book on our vehicles and our website. Yippee!!!!!!!!!! However, we are unable to use United Nations’ logos, such as UNESCO, which is very complicated as far [...]

A primary goal (amongst many, including a daily education routine) of the trip is to increase our own and our children’s self-awareness and appreciation as to the quality and comfort of our lives here in the UK - especially our educational environment and opportunities, compared to that of others around the world.
We have always been [...]

Jessica has started knitting a scarf for one of the Expedition bears and AJ received a book as a gift for his 4th birthday called ‘It’s a George Thing!’ - a duplicate of a book we already have. AJ has decided to donate our original version which is in as ‘new’ condition that we bought [...]

Hello and a big welcome to ‘Owk’ and ‘Bonzo’, our two ’Expedition’ teddy bears who have just joined us. We have just added a new Fundraising and Volunteering page to our site and are hoping the bears will become a fundamental part of our fund-raising plans. You can find out a little bit more information about the bears [...]