Well, it’s that time of the year again… As a family we are in the middle of packing our lives into 4 bags and heading out to the God’s great big Mission Field again. We have become experts at travelling and doing it as a family. This is my work bag, since my projects are […] Continue Reading »

I have spent a lot of my time over the last few months wishing that I knew what was going to happen in the near future and wondering at how effective God is at getting our attention through simple things he has built into our frame of reality, like a concept of limited and finite […] Continue Reading »

So far she has hand made quilts from Thailand, Nigeria, India and soon from Brazil too! Each child gets one!

We celebrated the New Year with family… Here is to the best year yet… 2013!

Our Wishes for the Season! We pray that this Christmas season would be a time of blessing for you, filled with the love, hope, faith, joy and peace that comes from God.May you know His love in a tangible way, as you remember the reason for His birth; may you be filled with the hope […] Continue Reading »

View Our Missions Trips in a larger google map Yellow pin is where we are based while not on the field. red pin is where we were born and our work started. purple pins are where we worked in 2010. I went to Colombia to assist them in starting a School of Design, Donna-Rae finished […] Continue Reading »

Amazing Dutch Band… Beautiful! Listen to their latest album here. Darkling, I Listen by The Black Atlantic

“Reverence for Fallen Trees” is a lovely affair of melancholy moods. The album is packed with mostly folk influenced acoustic pop attached to sweet and soft vocal harmonies, soft strummed guitars, piano and minimal percussion. Listen and download the album for free!

A few of my photos were featured on Stevehuffphoto.com over the weekend. Also, check out the Leica World Street Photography competition. Some of my images are there too.  

While we were in England I looked after the kids while Donna, my wife finished off her final course work for her Journalism degree. So I was schooling the kids and hanging out with them during the day. Looking back it was a great time of bonding with them, but quite a role reversal for […] Continue Reading »

This was taken early morning in England. the fog was thick. Beautiful days.

I went to visit my brother in Brighton last year while in England. A very cool and eclectic place. I can see why he chooses to lives there.

I took these photos on our recent trip to Asia this year. This is some seriously impressive architecture. The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE. They were lost for centuries under the jungle […] Continue Reading »

This is the view from the hill above our house in Northern Ireland. My daughter is getting more and more interersted in photography, so we take walks together in the evenings. Sometimes my son comes too, but usually it is just me and Mya! This was a pic I took the other day.

Dear friends and family Over the last four years since leaving Switzerland we have seen God provide miraculously for us for each trip that we have done. In 2009 Aleck went to Colombia to help start the School of Design there; in 2010 we went to England for six months to finish my (Donna’s) journalism […] Continue Reading »

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We want to invite you to make an investment in our ongoing development of Community Based Skills Training as we continue to develop international projects. Our goal and mission is to create affordable and viable modular training that is accessible and relevant culturally. The training is based around effective communication in each nation that will […] Continue Reading »

In the next few weeks I will be adding some new posts about us as a family. Our work has made us professional travellers, not an easy thing to do with young kids, so we will share some tips and tricks on travelling and let you have a peek into our lives. When you support […] Continue Reading »

These images are from our recent trip to India. Feel free to click on one to browse the images. This was a fort on a weekend visit to Ellora Caves and Ajanta Caves. Architecture in India is rustic and impressive but in a different way than in Thailand and Europe. I love looking at impressive […] Continue Reading »

These 34 monasteries and temples, extending over more than 2 km, were dug side by side in the wall of a high basalt cliff, not far from Aurangabad, in Maharashtra. Ellora, with its uninterrupted sequence of monuments dating from A.D. 600 to 1000, brings the civilization of ancient India to life. Not only is the […] Continue Reading »

This is a graphic of our training all over the world with the University of the Nations, Donna-Rae and I both work with the College of Communications in different roles, but we are both excited to see schools all over the world offering people a chance at further training that changes lives and societies as […] Continue Reading »

Our schedule as a family is quite radically different when we are on the field than when we are back home and preparing for the next project. It seems more and more that people are facing quite a change in terms of work commitments and family time. I know that this is hard to find […] Continue Reading »

This was the second of two schools we ran in Jos, Nigeria in 2011, this was an exhilirating trip that started with the terrible news that a bomb had gone off in both Abuja and Jos two days before we were due to fly out. It was at this point that everything became real, we […] Continue Reading »

At the end of January we begin our next trip, for the last few years we have been travelling for half of our year in the third world, Africa, Asia, Europe. Our goal, always, is to do it with the smallest amount of pressure on those we serve on the field. So, we have chosen […] Continue Reading »

This week has been a tough one, I have always been healthy, never spent a day in hospital except to have my tonsils out as a child. The only other time i have been in critical condition was when I had malaria in Uganda and then it recurred for around a year afterwards. This week […] Continue Reading »

 These photos were taken with my iPhone the other day, I hardly ever take photos with a phone, but my camera has taken a pitt stop in Germany with Leica while the shutter gets repaired. I never realised how addicting photography has become. Just two years ago I never took photos much at all, but […] Continue Reading »

My kids have learned how to make a game out of anything… They would often pour water onto our balcony in India and slip and slide up and down for fun! Growing up in Africa where lego and toys were a luxury, I did the same as a boy. Nice to see some traditions run […] Continue Reading »

India is an incredible place to hit the streets with a camera. People are delighted to be photographed and there is amazing character and life in their faces. I love India, can’t wait to return in the future.  

We were in the taxi in England and I asked the kids what animals they would like to see in Africa before we arrived at the airport. Mya said she would like to see elephants, giraffe and lions. Micah said,”Rabbits”. We arrived where we were staying in Jos, Nigeria and he got his wish, not […] Continue Reading »

We spend part of our year in the UK and the other half or so working on projects all over the third world. We travel as a family together and have a lot of fun doing school, changing countries and meeting wonderful people in every region of the world. For short trips, we can manage […] Continue Reading »

I will lead the next School of Design in Brazil from February to May 2013.

Our Christian faith leads us to believe that this should be shown in action through our lives, we face the same challenges as anyone else on the face of the earth. We need to put food on the table, educate our children, make a home and face all the challenges of life. In each point […] Continue Reading »

We are a family… Micah, Mya, Aleck and Donna-Rae Cartwright. We travel, play and experience life together in a fun and exhilarating way. Micah loves being on a bus, plane or train and enjoys airports the most! This is a good thing with the lifestyle we have. Mya is always excited about new experiences and LOTS of people, […] Continue Reading »

We work and travel all over the world offering Design Training as a Community Development Strategy. The goal of which is to train people in the first and third world in Graphic Design and Effective Communication. Donna-Rae is a Graphic Designer, primarily in Print, but also recently started producing Documentaries and studying Motion Graphics. Aleck is doing more […] Continue Reading »