Expat Mommy In Angola

Meet the woman who makes Angola’s abandoned kids look forward to a better future. The first time I met her she amazed me with her drive , passion and level of involvement with these kids, a level of involvement that goes beyond volunteering some of your personal time, and becomes part of your daily life. I did not understand how she had all this strength in her to deal with daily troubles and heartbreaking issues of street children in Angola. Estelle Dogbe has been working with international development and humanitarian projects for over 15 years mostly in Africa. Since high school she knew that this is what she wanted to do. Wanting to discover the world at a young age, she started off in Togo back in 1997 where she went to plant trees in a village. She has been all over Africa! After Togo, she then went on to work with "Medecins sans Frontieres" in Liberia and Sierra Leone. She also worked in Sudan with the French embassy and worked as a consultant fo

First school mid term break for the year, and we thought of starting it one morning with this fun taste test challenge! My son is definitely NOT a picky eater and is willing to try new types of food, however if you have  picky eaters try to lure them into opening up to new foods through this fun game!

For the past few months, and after around 7 years in Angola I can finally say that I am actually doing what i planned to when i first decided to move to Africa. Help the underprivileged, the children in these impoverished communities and through this I reach an inner satisfaction for being in this country. It all happened when i met a group of amazing inspiring women who are part of the Kambamba school project , a school which i look forward to visiting every week, and which we fundraise for in different ways in Luanda.  THE ACTUAL SCHOOL Four walls, a roof a teacher and students. This is what a basic school structure is composed off,  and this is what an expat lady’s new year resolution was transformed into, the Kambamba school project for 90 kids of the Kambamba community of Angola’s capital of Luanda. Marjan Looyeh, an expat in Luanda used to visit the poor community with a friend to teach the kids some basic English and to play with them. They g