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Meet Niamh O Riordan and Malachy Harty. Together, we created the All About Africa education project. We left Ireland on April 13th, 2005 on an overland trip through Africa. We travelled from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa in eight months, arriving home just in time for Christmas on December 22nd, 2005.
Malachy and Niamh have settled back into life in Ireland. Well, sort of settled! In the Summer of 2007, we made another crazy journey, this time from Alaska to Argentina. Due to unfortunate lack of imagination, we called it All About Americas. The American trip was twice the distance in half the time, so Africa remains our fondest travel story. Still, it was quite an adventure. We haven't yet managed to create a similar educational package from the American trip, but hopefully something will come of it.
Niamh has recently completed a PhD in Commerce at University College Cork, besides being a musician and a photographer.
Spurred on by his experiences in Africa, Malachy studied International Development and Food Policy at UCC and graduated last Autumn. He spent the Summer volunteering with NGOs and snorkling with turtles in Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean. Now he's back in Ireland working with Comhlámh and Concern. He also continues to work as a photographer at Malachy Harty Photography
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Photo Exhibition:
Many thanks to all who visited our photo exhibition at the Irish Aid Centre in Dublin during August. It was a wonderful occasion for us. Tom Arnold, Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide, performed the official opening and we were thrilled to be joined by so many friends, photographers and international development professionals. Following this, the exhibition travelled to Midleton Library, Cork's Camden Palace Hotel and University College Cork during the remainder of 2010 and 2011. We were delighted with the response to the exhibition - thanks for your support.
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Cape Town to Cork by Niamh O Riordan
We had arrived into Cape Town under cover of darkness and woke the following morning in a state of shock. We'd actually done it. We'd completed the trip and notwithstanding the occasional bout of food poisoning, dysentary, acute mountain sickness and malaria, we'd made it in one piece. Cape Town is... What is Cape Town like? Think Chicago - think skyscrapers, think big roads and bigger shops, think pretty cafes with outdoor seating and fine restaurants and the finest seafood you've ever tasted...
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