By Shaya Laughlin From Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Walking through a refugee tent settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley brings mixed feelings. On one side, there is the misery and the despair. Families living in severe poverty, crammed in rudimentary tents...
During 2016 scuba diving became a passion. Loving travel, people and the sea, becoming a scuba instructor, was the obvious choice. Easier said than done, but with a huge number of internships on offer I jumped at the opportunity...
There exists not a single skiing slope in Nepal, nor any local snow sports culture. At the customs I was asked if my ski bag contained golf cubs. In short, although the country hosts the highest mountains of the...
Reflection written by Kirsten König Not being an engineer, one might think that the documentation of a borehole construction is not interesting to accompany. However, if this construction takes place in an area hardly visited by non- South...
By Henrike Christ (English Below) Wer seine Zeit in und um den Mata Atlantica aufmerksam verbringt, kann neben der außergewöhnlichen Flora auch eine vielfältige Tierwelt kennen lernen. Die Entdeckungstour beginnt bereits früh am Morgen, wenn man von dem Vogelgezwitscher...
By Charlotte + Max (English below) Es braucht ein bisschen Kompost, Calcium, Erde und einen Setzling. Ach, nur noch kurz hacken, schaufeln und ankratzen, nun ist der Baum gepflanzt. Wäre dies alles schon an jedem Loch auf dem Feld...
Authors: Chris Arderne, Michael Kloos, Rick Kotze We knew this already, but our three weeks in Mexico drove the message home on an almost daily basis. This is the story of three South African amigos fumbling their way up...
An unConference is a conference, but better. It doesn’t have a fixed agenda but rather develops on the spot. It brings together people from all sorts of different backgrounds and walks of life for a day full of new...
By Ansgar Fellendorf In the first week of December I participated for Pangaea Project and my university, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, at the 4th Arab- European Young Leaders Forum (AEYLF) in Doha. The event, organized by the Austrian...
Tree planting project at Fazenda Almada near Ilheus, Bahia, Brazil – 20.10.2016 till 02.11.2016 We finished our second project at Fazenda Almada. It was great to see the 600 seedlings from the first project (read about the July 2016...