Join Scott from Cosmic Volunteers and our friends in Philadelphia on September 25 for screenings and discussions of several documentaries related to global development.

Event: Global Awareness Films At the Fish
Date: September 25, 2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Place: Walking Fish Theater
Address: 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19125
Cost: $7

Trailer for “Graceland Girls”
(about educating girls in Kenya)

Graceland Girls Documentary Trailer 2012 from Jordan Salvatoriello on Vimeo.

Consider teaching in Nakuru, Kenya. Here are some photos from one of the schools where our volunteers teach. The school has a dormitory for the students (and female volunteers), as well as a medical clinic (“dispensary”).

Nakuru is Kenya’s fourth largest town (pop 300k) and is approximately a 1 hour bus ride from Nairobi. There’s a busy but relatively small downtown in Nakuru, with Lake Nakuru and its pink flamingos one of Kenya’s popular attractions.

Good article in Bloomberg yesterday describing the booming funeral business in Ghana. Visitors to Ghana learn this quickly, as funeral processions in the streets, with music and dancing and singing, are common throughout the country. Not to mention the elaborate custom coffins which reflect the essence of the deceased person’s life; they can look like a fish (for a fisherman), a bible (for a preacher), or a sneaker (for an athlete).

With the support of Whole Planet Foundation, four college kids traveled to Guatemala to conduct research about how the poor must budget their money. They tried living on $1 a day.

Here is the first installment of their documentary:

The authorities in Nairobi continue to recover from the major airport fire earlier this week. Good news — Kenya says it will resume all international flights today (Aug 9) at its main airport (Jomo Kenyatta International).

For our volunteers currently in Kenya who are scheduled to fly home this week, Cosmic Volunteers will continue to work with you and your families back home to re-schedule your flights and/or book new flights out of Kenya.

Online accounts we are following for updates:

• @Interior Ministry of Kenya
• @Kenya Airports
• @Kenya Airways
• @KLM in Kenya
• @Red Cross
• @US Embassy in Nairobi

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s life.”

-Mark Twain

Samuel from Australia is working in Cosmic Volunteer’s journalism internship program in Ghana — at Pravda Radio Station in Ghana in west Africa. Thanks so much for joining us in Africa, Sam!

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