Category: Archived Posts
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Barefoot Heroes
Awer Mabil and Awer Bul, two young men of South Sudanese origin, visited the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya in 2014. The brothers brought with them 20 football shirts to distribute among the young footballers in the camp. The sprawling Kakuma camp located in Turkana County in arid northwestern Kenya had been their home for…
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Black Swans & Brilliant sunsets
Lake Wendouree is earth’s generosity personified. Situated in Ballarat, an hour and a half from Melbourne, Lake Wendouree was known in the 1800s by white settlers as the ‘black swamp’. A sizeable aboriginal population inhabited the area around the lake at that time. In 1838 William Cross Yuille a white squatter, settled down south of ‘Black Swamp’ in the…
Duniya Salaam 