Ulingana

Ulingana…… Equal

an adventure, unexpected friendships,
a deaf education for Ketty….

do we choose our adventures or do they choose us?

The story of one person wanting to experience the poorest part of the World, Eastern Zambia, before he got too old to travel. No agenda. Not a ‘burning desire to help people’. Just a feeling that we are all born equal under the sun. A remarkable friendship with a young deaf girl and organising funds to get her an education. Then teaching Yoga where I never expected to find such interest. Please enjoy ….

About

Ulingana means ‘equalling out’ in Chichewa. A chance meeting between a traveller in Africa with no agenda, and a six year old deaf girl who steals his heart.

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Yoga in Zambia

It was never my intention to teach Yoga in Eastern Zambia. It’s my personal life, my daily practice. But people saw me, want to try… the rest is history.

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Culture and Projects

If I’d gone to Africa to help those ‘worse off than myself’, I’d have missed so much. Absorb the Culture however you can. Take years over that. Then…

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Can we choose where we are born?

Some of the most beautiful places on earth are also the poorest. Whatever the reason …. colonialism, exploitation by richer nations, poor governance…. we all have the same human needs.

Our projects still need financial support.
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Borehole completed

December 14, 2022December 15, 2022

It’s been a big job to get the money together for this, and a big ask to those willing to donate, but finally we achieved what we set out to do in a little over a year. It still isn’t completely paid for, I’m still paying money back because it cost more than I wasContinue reading Borehole completed

Borehole

November 25, 2022November 25, 2022

Finally, after lots of ups and downs, we’ve got a borehole drilled. Thanks so much to everyone who’s donated and helped in this project. It is difficult to describe how much you’ve helped to change the life of my friends here. Now we need a last push… we need to raise another £800 pounds toContinue reading Borehole

Please help us to get clean water!

December 19, 2021November 10, 2022

Climate change, maybe it’s an abstract idea to you, but we need water right now! The rains have not come and now our wells have run dry. My dear friend Alice, mother of Ketty, has to walk every day to a borehole. It’s about a kilometre there… give or take a bit.I do that walkContinue reading Please help us to get clean water!

may you live in interesting times

July 10, 2021November 10, 2022

Now I’m in a quarantine hotel for 10 days. They keep you in confinement with no human contact. No problems, I’ve got lots of work to do and anyway, Wimbledon’s on the telly.

Harvest

May 17, 2021November 10, 2022

I got stuck in Zambia. Well I do like it here. But with half the world being on Boris ‘The Animal’ Johnson’s ‘Red List’ (Stand in the corner you bad bad country) it’s kind of difficult to find someone to take you back to the UK. My usual carriers, Kenyan Airways and Ethiopian Airlines haveContinue reading Harvest

We did it

March 28, 2021June 15, 2021

We’ve finished our Yoga Hall, and now we can get on with teaching Yoga to people in this area of Eastern Province, Zambia. Raise your glasses, ladies and gentlemen, a toast to the people who donated money, yoga trousers and blocks (the Northern Ireland contingent come in for a whole Jereboam of champagne to themselvesContinue reading We did it

Start of a new Project

October 3, 2020June 14, 2021

Let’s formalise this ‘Yoga in Zambia’ thing into a new category on this blog. It’s a new project, and it ties in with the original purpose of this blog; to get an education at the deaf school for Ketty. Now not-so-young Ketty! She’s 11 years old now, wow, how the time has flown since aContinue reading Start of a new Project

What next, after Black Lives Matter?

July 6, 2020November 10, 2022

I recently posted as guest author on the website of my mentor and guide on the Yoga path. I tell you this to save me rewriting a lot of the carefully crafted piece that I did there… you can read it if you’re interested here >>> https://swami-nishchalananda.com/2020/07/02/possibilities-for-social-justice/ Here’s a small extract from that piece… giveContinue reading What next, after Black Lives Matter?

A different World

May 2, 2020November 10, 2022

I started this blog as a documentary about my project raising funds for Ketty, my young deaf friend in Eastern Province, Zambia. Truth to tell, Ketty’s fine…… …. she and I have grown closer in a most delightful way. She’s 11 years old now and the path that has unfolded for her appears to beContinue reading A different World