Currell e-pistle

Over the last week we have been doing an intensive review of our transition homes, which Oasis has been running in Kyrgyzstan for two and a ...

December 25th is not a special holiday in Kyrgyzstan; we even had a discussion as to whether we would close the office (we did!). The childr...

The temperatures have plummeted over the last week and are down to minus twenty at night and rise to  minus ten to fifteen during the day. S...

Last week one of the girls in our Transitional Home for girls was reunited with her family. The details are murky, but it seems that when ...

Recently someone translating for me as I talked to Oasis staff had problems when I used the word 'challenge' - as in 'one of our...

I (Jim) went for my first haircut in Kyrgyzstan last week. After 10 weeks here it had got a bit long, so, armed with my best Russian and s...

On Saturday we were in summer clothes, enjoying the autumn and leaves changing colour - as the picture shows. The city parks have been rea...