by Drink Baotic | Jan 7, 2019 | Africa Development, The Gambia
Gambia 2018 Baobab Community Meetings Happy New Year Friends! We hope you had an amazing festive period with friends and family, and managed to unwind a little after a busy 2018, ready fighting fit for another amazing year ahead! For ourselves, the end of 2018 was a...
by Drink Baotic | Sep 23, 2018 | Africa Development, The Gambia
In 2008 as a VSO volunteer with Voluntary Services Overseas I (Paul) was living with Isatou and her family in the village of Mansajang, Upper River Region in rural Gambia. l started as an IT capacity builder working for the ministry of education, embedding the...
by Drink Baotic | Aug 12, 2018 | Africa Development, The Gambia
Today we thought we would kick off our Gambian features, and cover a little background information about our beloved Gambia, the smiling coast of West Africa! As my (Isatou’s) home country, and where Paul and I first met through Voluntary Services Overseas...
by Drink Baotic | Jun 19, 2018 | Africa Development, Baobab Stories
In a paper published in the journal Nature Plants in June 2018, questioning Baobab sustainability, a causal link was made between the death of some very old baobab trees in southern Africa and climate change. This is something that’s happened over the last 12+...
by Drink Baotic | Jun 5, 2018 | Baotic journey
On 23rd May we met Sir Richard Branson. This was celebrating our #VOOM tour win from the end of 2017. It was an eventful day. Last minute notice and a busy calendar meant we had to travel down to London on the same day for a 12:15 meeting, normally plenty of time....
