- Afghanistan Now
- GLOBAL VOLUNTEER GUIDE ‘06
- Chernobyl at 20

This features the Patagonia Expedition Race, VoIPing, The African Penquin, Skin Cancer Advice and much more.

FEATURES

31_AFGHANISTAN NOW
Once the greatest crossroads of Central Asia, Afghanistan today lies mostly in ruins. Reconstruction may be underway, but the war with the Taliban is a constant threat to security. A photographic investigation into the everyday life of Afghanistan.
PHOTOGRAPHY: RICHARD FITOUSSI

39_GLOBAL VOLUNTEER GUIDE ‘06
Meet this year’s 10 Travellers For Change and learn how you can make a difference through overseas volunteerism, internships and educational opportunities. Also, engineering a better world with five low-tech innovations.
COMPILED BY: ANDREA GRZYBOWSKI, TERRY ALDERFER + GRACE FAGIOLI

53_BURNING STAR: Chernobyl at 20
Two decades on, the legacy of the world’s worst environmental and nuclear disaster remains clouded, subject to myth, gossip and conflicting science. The people who didn’t leave struggle to survive, refugees from a future that never happened.
PRODUCED BY: LARRY FROLICK
STORY: CHRISTOPHER FREY
PHOTOGRAPHY: DONALD WEBER

TRIPPING

7_RYAN’S WELL OF HOPE
Improving access to portable water.

10_ON THE FRINGE
Predicting malaria and will the banana disappear?

13_LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
Many of South Africa’s 150,000 penquins suffer the effects of pollution. Volunteers are helping to clean and rehabilitate them for their reintroduction to the wild.

18_GOURMET DU MONDE
Cinnamon Verite - whether you’re going for sweet or savoury, cinnamon almost always does the trick. Just make sure you have the real thing.

20_HEALTHPOST
Apparently, it’s not so good to be on the sunny side of the street.

22_GOING HARD
Safety personnel be damned, the Patagonia Expedition Race is exactly what elite racers have been hungering for.

24_FIELD NOTES
A 100-day paddling expedition to the Arctic Ocean studies how people interact with landscape.

28_MEC’s THE TRAVELLER’s EDGE

69_OPEN BOX
VoIPing may be the best new way to reach out and touch someone.

70_BACKPACKERZ BUZZ
News from Hostelling International

77_BIG FAT WORD
Book reviews

78_WRIGHT OF WAY
Ian parties the night away at the Iban longhouse.