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Photo of the day

Posted in July 17th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Experiencing Africa, Friends & family, Personal

Life the way I love it…

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Today, 20 years ago

Posted in June 12th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Eden Foundation, Favourite posts, Ishtar travels, Life as a volunteer, Working as a volunteer

Where were you, twenty years ago?

This very day, twenty years ago, I was visiting the field station with my family to see the development of the new mud buildings that Eden was setting up in Dalli, 13 km south of Tanout city.

Although the buildings themselves were nice, the field station did not make that much […]

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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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Introducing Boscia senegalensis from nature’s pantry

Posted in May 27th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Cultural differences, Eden Foundation, Healthy living, Life as a volunteer, Nigerien culture & traditions, Things you want to know about Niger

From a world market perspective - where the global spotlight stays focused on a handful of species that still produce the majority of the food despite the fact that there is a total of 78,000 edible species available in the world (an untapped resource for the upcoming ‘world food crisis’) - it would not be […]

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Meet the Garvis

Posted in May 25th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Friends & family

Summer in Sweden (2005)
The picture above includes every Garvi I have ever met, with the exception of my two little nieces.

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Monday memories

Posted in May 19th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Personal

All the students of Cours Francois Villons in Zinder (1989)
I had a happy expat childhood going to a tiny French school where there were less students in the entire school than in my Swedish class. Lol, I was supposed to teach the other Scandinavians French but ended up learning fluent Danish instead. We had a […]

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