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For the last few years Oasis has been running two transitional homes; one for boys and one for girls. The young people now living in them ha...

The Silk Road was an ancient trade route; goods produced in China (including paper, jade and, obviously, silk) travelled West, whilst glass ...

Spring has arrived in a big way in the last few weeks; turning a bare and brown city into a garden. There are trees everywhere in Bishkek an...

The Noorus festival (the second public holiday of the month!) marks the  first day of Spring and is a big celebration in Central Asia. In Bi...

Today, the people of Kyrgyzstan are celebrating International Women's Day in a BIG way. Everybody has the day off and the shops and road...

Today we have been in Kyrgyzstan for six months! Overall, we have really enjoyed our first six months here. There has been much that has b...

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 ...