The local newspaper’s talk!

Post author By Cindy
Post date May 10, 2012
16 Comments on The local newspaper’s talk!

I do fall in love now and then, but up to now, I also always moved on. Something like this is what the bigger letters in the text says. The headline says ‘worldtraveller for a good cause’. The friendly reported who interviewed me, who did this 5 years ago too, was amazed that I am forty years old! So she asked me: ‘Don’t you ever want to settle down?’

No, not yet. But I tried this once -for a full six months- with a person who did not too well. I think this was all done and arranged to let me boiling, absorbing and become to the stage where I am right now.

Something similar are Marijke and her husband Jacques doing to me, the presidents of the organisation I want to peddle for. Moulding me, deeper and broader into their organisation Focus on Education. I am willing to go to Congo. To their school built for orphanes and ex-child soldiers, children like the ones from Blood Diamond. It’s a medical school where classes are being given for professions such as nurse and a vaccinationcentre will be built in the, hopefully near, future.

Since I planned to cycle along the coast of West Africa, and catch some cool breeze in the back, I will bounce against The Gambia. Here is another project of Focus on Education, something I loved when I was a child. Back then, my parents could make me happy with three things while travelling: donkeys, mountains and botanical gardens. I hope to visit Suleiman and his very own botanical garden.

Then, probably many, many months later, I wish to reach India where I would like to visit all the projects I have visited before. I am looking forwards to meet mama Uma Devi and her daughters, son Lakhsman and Dharmender, the boy with the skull operation. I would love to meet the nuns of Varanasi and their lovely ‘low caste’ girls. Smell the coconutoil in the black hair of the orphanes in Batlagundu, and move in for a while with the tribe in the Northern states of India. But for now, I am making myself ready to cycle to Congo. While the mind is ready to choose for the hardship, the practical part is in full swing!

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By Cindy

Years of traveling brought me many different insights, philosophies and countries I needed to be (over 90 in total). I lived in Pakistan, went over 15 times to India and when I stopped cycling the world, that was after 50.000 kilometer through 45 countries, I met Geo. Together we now try to be more self-sustainable, grow our own food and live off-grid. I now juggle with the logistics of being an old-fashioned housewife, cook and creative artist loving the outdoors. The pouches I create are for sale on www.cindyneedleart.com

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16 replies on “The local newspaper’s talk!”

Over een weekje ergens je eerste overnachting ergens onderweg! Waar?? Het vertrek zal ook wel wat inhouden. Met publiciteit of liever prive? De media toont interesse zo te merken aan je bericht. En jou zin om te vertrekken klinkt er helemaal in door.
Het Congo verhaal doet me denken aan mijn twee nichtjes (15 en 18) die ook dromen van Afrika en daar ooit iets te willen doen.
Mijn tochtje komt er ook aan. Ben ook bezig met tassen in en weer uit paken en weer inpakken en wegen. Ben jij hiermee al helemaal op orde? Sterkte met de laatste dingetjes en afscheid nemen.

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