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Good news from St Catherine’s Monastery

October 12, 2013 4:08 pm Published by Comments Off on Good news from St Catherine’s Monastery

Cheering news from an otherwise tense Sinai peninsula: St Catherine’s Monastery, closed to visitors by the Egyptian authorities since August, has reopened. This ancient house is home to a couple of dozen Greek Orthodox monks and mainstay of the Jabilaya... Read more


Gordonstoun Ethiopia Expedition

September 10, 2013 3:20 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Twelve students from Gordonstoun School embarked on an expedition to Tigray in northern Ethiopia in June 2013. Their base was the remote village of Mydaero and their objective, to help install a new 1.5km water pipeline to the school where... Read more


Musings from a Leader

February 22, 2012 2:15 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Wind Sand & Stars leaders are carefully selected not only for their essential safety skills and experience, but also for their ability to communicate and inspire the pupils in their care. Leader Jim Lewis (pictured with one of our Egyptian... Read more