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We walked between 30-40 km’s a day and dealt with all the teething problems you can imagine at the start of such a trip – blisters, heat exhaustion, sore shoulders & feet, boredom, dehydration, no food, sun burn, rashes, finding places to sleep on regional roads, etc. etc. the list does go on. Despite all of this it was an incredible time, one that gives you a lot of time to think about the future and to reflect on the past. Some of those thoughts and reflections are captured in this blog. Change is a peculiar beast, you can fight…

It is hard to believe, after the past 2 years travelling in some of the most poverty stricken parts of the globe and visiting the most disadvantaged communities, that so many people choose to remain conveniently oblivious to the suffering of our fellow human beings. The cocooned environment of the sheltered, cozy western lifestyle has the habit of cutting people off from connecting with society at large. We fall into a truly detrimental pattern of becoming caught up in trivial ‘first world problems’ in our own lives. Believe me I know. However we must see these things for what they…

We spent the first half of 2014 living in the Child Rescue Centre in regional Cambodia, in a tiny little village called Krang Lovea. I spent my days working with the children and the staff there, guiding them to be a little bit better at everything they were trying to achieve and Ashley was in charge of teaching English to the kids and the community. We loved our time there but it did not come without it’s challenges, the weather seemed to always be against us, we went through some of the most intense weather I have ever experienced –…

After 11.5 months of volunteering in some of the poorest countries on earth where I spent my time in child rescue centres, HIV orphanages, homes for the disabled and in slum schools teaching English, across December and January I spent 4 weeks back in Sydney. The excitement of being back home was soon overcome by a feeling of being totally out of place, a feeling that I did not belong here anymore and that my time needs to be spent in developing countries helping the underprivileged through my charity. Regardless of this feeling I made the most of the summer…