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Wandering the World

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Tag: volunteering

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Women carrying baskets on their heads as they walk through yellow grad

Malawi Day 3

Our first day of volunteering involved building a school, and fitting bins.

May 22, 2018

Night over Nepal

Nepal Day 5

The end of our volunteer work, could we finish the pipeline in time?

November 24, 2016

Volunteers in Nepal

Nepal Day 4

Today was our first day of digging a water pipeline for the village we were staying outside of.

November 23, 2016

Clean up Nepal

Nepal Day 3

Today we all went off to work on projects, and then met up afterwards headed up into the mountains, to the athlete's village at the scout hut in Kakani.

November 22, 2016

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