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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 finally 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.

Photo Exhibition:

We will present a selection of photographs from our journey at The Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, O'Connell Street, Dublin, for the month of August, 2010. These photographs represent our experiences and interactions with the people we met during the trip. The people in the photos portray the strong, confident, dignified, capable and hopeful people we met all along our journey. Niamh and Malachy will share some experiences, which were very different to what we had expected. Come to our opening evening if you're nearby, on Wednesday 28th of July 2010, from 6.00 to 7.00 pm.

For our core supporters, readers and sponsors, based in East Cork, we will bring the exhibition to Midleton Library during September and October 2010. We look forward to meeting you there. Dates to be confirmed.

From Our Journal...

Journey's End - Niamh O Riordan

It was very nice to come home for Christmas. Everyone looks wonderful – they’ve all been shopping and had the hair done for the festive season. Then there are the lights, decorations and most importantly, presents. Sorry, did I say that? No, it couldn’t have been me. I have come back from Africa a changed woman. No capitalists here!
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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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