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Mothers of Africa UK: Reflecting on the Journey and Moving Forward
Mothers of Africa UK decides to "Hang up its Hat". rom cakes sales and sponsored walks to selling Christmas cards and concerts. It has...
Mar 242 min read
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Thanks for taking an interest in our trip!
We are Neil O’ Dowd and Céline Gally and we are aged 26 and 25 respectively. Before our trip we were living in Dublin, Ireland where we...
Jul 7, 20223 min read
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Lauren Carroll reflects on a year interning with Mothers of Africa
I started interning for Mothers of Africa in May of 2020 as a second-year at Sciences, thanks to Meg Harris who put me in touch with the...
Jul 9, 20212 min read
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Meg Harris: reflections of my internship at MoA
In the summer of 2019, I worked at a refugee education center in Athens, Greece. It was an eye-opening experience which allowed me to...
May 14, 20203 min read
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Mothers of Africa hands over Primary School to the people of Zambia
Professor Judith Hall from Cardiff and Susanne Batstone from MOA Monaco were welcomed to Chongwe, Zambia to hand over the evergreen...
Nov 29, 20191 min read
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Books & pencil cases for Zambian children.
We are delighted to announce the arrival of our shipment of books and pencil cases from Monaco. It took nine months! Paul Crompton from...
Nov 29, 20191 min read
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Reflections on my internship with MoA (Sept 2018- April 2019)
Exactly a year ago, I submitted a letter of engagement for a parcours civique project—a new 2-year long civic engagement programme as...
Jul 28, 20194 min read
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How do you iron a flag?
“How do you think you iron a flag? Do you think 50 tubes of glue are going to be enough? Do you really think we need all those paint...
Nov 7, 20182 min read
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Afrique…Zambie… Chongwe ville…
Au bout d’un long chemin défoncé en terre battue, difficilement praticable en voiture, je découvre enfin Shiyala Village, et puis Shiyala...
Oct 7, 20182 min read
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Summer Adventures in Zambia
It all started around a Sunday lunch table in La Turbie….. ‘You must come’, ‘It would be great if we all go’…… By the time I heard ‘The...
Aug 22, 20183 min read
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A glimpse into family life in Shiyala – Part 3
Joseph and Margaret Lungu have been involved with Mothers of Africa since we first visited Shiyala. Joseph had followed Maxwell as head...
Jul 6, 20182 min read
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A glimpse into family life in Shiyala - Part 2
During my time visiting Shiyala I’ve been fortunate to come to know Agnes and Clement and their children. I met Agnes on the very first...
Jun 20, 20181 min read
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A glimpse into family life in Shiyala – Part 1
As I walked up the dirt road from the Shiyala School to visit Maxwell’s home, this tall elegant man was walking down to meet me. Maxwell...
May 30, 20182 min read
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Building ‘a tree with leaves’
It’s just 6:30, on a cold Zambian morning, as the small flatbed truck reverses up to the door of the building merchant in Chongwe town....
Apr 20, 20183 min read
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