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Somewhere deep in the Sahara desert

Posted in June 8th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Ishtar thoughts

The Sahara desert (1985)

The Sahara desert (1985)
I’ve never been in love with the desert as some of my other family members are, but I do fancy the idea of turning it all green one day!

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Le Club Privé de Zinder

Posted in June 7th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Life as a volunteer

Having been reminded quite frequently lately of the existence of the Club Privée de Zinder, I finally decided to join again. As it turned out it’s not that expensive for us volunteers, which was good, or I wouldn’t have been able to!

The water was a bit thick and slightly green, but once I slipped into […]

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May in Niger, 20 years ago

Posted in May 31st, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Friends & family

So how was warm season in Niger spent 20 year ago? I was looking through my mother’s image archives the other day and found lots of reminders, all from the month of May 1988.

As always, May was excessively dusty - and we found we could write things in the dust coat on the veranda table. […]

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