Project Air says, "Thank you, Cantienica!!” and “Thank you, Cantienca’s wonderful customers!!!”
To everyone who so generously contributed to Cantienca’s lovely collection for Christmas this year, Project Air would like to express its...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Aug 15, 2014
- 4 min
Days 6 and 7: 24 hours in Uganda
Why Uganda? I’ll tell you: Foreigners working in Rwanda need to have their visa renewed every three months, even so after a five or 12...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Aug 15, 2014
- 3 min
Did you (still) know that...
Funny and interesting things that happened to us or were found out by us during our trip to Kigali/Rwanda in June 2014 which we did on...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Aug 15, 2014
- 2 min
Kigali - Day 5
'Yesterday' evening, Fred-Marc travelled back to Switzerland. So in all blog posts to come photos will be from my smartphone. The...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Jul 24, 2014
- 2 min
Kigali - Day 4 - CANTIENICA® Training in Kigali, Ruanda
Women in colourful dresses sitting at colourful sewing machines are sewing colourful things out of colourful fabrics: shoulder bags, pot...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Jul 23, 2014
- 2 min
Kigali - Day 3 (continued)
Pascal, Simon, Hussein, Samuel, Robert: names I can keep in mind easily, in contrary to their native Rwandan names which take me a lot...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Jul 23, 2014
- 3 min
Always be prepared for surprises ...
(How to get prepared for a trip to Rwanda? – continued) Everything boils down to an excellent preparation! And it seems easy, thanks to...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Jul 23, 2014
- 3 min
Kigali - Day 3
You don’t need an alarm clock here, for sure. Shortly past five o’ clock, the birds start to sing, their chirrups ceasing again before...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Jul 23, 2014
- 4 min
Kigali - Day 2 - Yoga class with Nassim (35)
Well, here goes Nassim’s story ... Newly-wed Nassim was 15 when people in her country started this horrible thing which was to go down in...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Jul 22, 2014
- 2 min
Kigali - Day 1
Later on, we had "decent" breakfast: sensationally juicy passion fruits, sweet papayas, real tasty avocados and "groundnuts", as they use...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Jul 22, 2014
- 2 min
How to get prepared for a trip to Rwanda?
When Benita asked me to join her on her trip to Rwanda I did not utterly feel intrigued at first. I had not the foggiest what was in...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Jul 21, 2014
- 2 min
Arrival at Kigali International Airport
Tired from the long-haul flight, Fred-Marc and I hope to pass the gates with all our stuff unbothered. But one of the officers stops us....
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Jul 21, 2014
- 1 min
What is Project Air?
A project it was high time for, to say the least. Project Air, as a non profit organisation, has developed a unique programme to help...
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Das CANTIENICA®-Team
- Jul 21, 2014
- 2 min
A matter of the heart: Project Air, founded by Deirdre Summerbell
In March, Benita found the following email in her inbox: "Dear Ms Cantieni, I recently came across your book, Tigerfeeling, and would...
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