Postcard from Bishkek

During the week the “baseball kids” have been making plans for the weekend. Sunday – October 31st, Halloween – seems to have caught their imagination.  Katya, for example, is a member of a dance troupe and they had a show in one of the city’s youth centers, (but as I was in Naryn for my [...]

Some of you will know that one of the charities that I support here in Kyrgyzstan is the Karakol Orphanage. I was introduced to the orphanage by a British (Irish) consultant, Hugh Coulter, who was working on an EU project which was based up in Karakol.   You can find out more about how he came [...]