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07
Aug
We like the world: final word from Frédéric Colas
The Colas family have completed their tour of the world for solidarity, with Frédéric, Estelle and Héloïse returning to Paris at the end of June after travelling around the world for one year, covering all the continents. Time to take stock of this outstanding adventure, and the results are more than positive because “we like [...]
16
Jan
Interview with Frédéric Colas, part 3: “what we’re experiencing is Life with a capital L!”
End of our interview with Fred Colas from Sydney (see part 1 here and part 2 here) Talking about an alternative life project, do you think you’ll be able to go back to a “normal” life when you return? Good question, I actually dreamed about it last night! I don’t really know, but what is [...]
13
Jan
Interview with Frédéric Colas, part 2: “this isn’t holidays, it’s actually an alternative life project”
Continuation of our interview with Fred Colas from Sydney (see part 1 here) It’s 6 months ago now that you began your adventure, and I know it’s difficult to choose but can you tell us what your favorite memory is so far? It’s different for each of the family but for me it’s the whales [...]
12
Jan
Interview with Frédéric Colas, part 1: “The tablet’s a digital Swiss knife!”
Frédéric Colas agreed to give me an interview in Adelaide, Australia, to share his first impressions and experiences after 6 months of the We like the World adventure. It was an exciting interview that made me think and gave me goose bumps! This was because he shared all the emotion of such a human adventure [...]
05
Jan
We like the World is now 6 months old
It was six months ago that the Colas family set off on its round-the-world trip in support of solidarity initiatives. Frédéric and Estelle Colas along with their daughter Héloïse are raising funds to build a school in Africa with the help of an unprecedented support network via Facebook. So where are they now? here are [...]
25
Oct
We like the World in Silicon Valley
The Colas family are continuing on their round-the-world trip supporting solidarity initiatives. They stopped off at the heart of Silicon Valley, visiting Orange Labs and the headquarters of Facebook…Here, Fred Colas shares their adventure. Orange in the Valley Just before Silicon Valley began mourning the loss of Steve Jobs, we spent a day there, taking [...]
12
Sep
‘We like the world’: school foundations laid!
Great news! Thanks to the determined efforts of web users and the Colas family, work to build the We like the world school in Burkina has started. In an article published yesterday on theWe like the world blog , (in French), Frédéric Colas presents the team in charge of the project on site, as well [...]
07
Sep
discover the ‘We like the world’ rock band!
during their trip to Seattle, the Colas family took a musical break with the Experience Music Project to record a somewhat surprising…pop video! Fred Colas explains how they came together to shoot a rock video in the article Sixth week according to Fred (part 2): Victoria and Seattle, with an extract presented here: [...] if [...]
05
Aug
We like the world : it’s been one month already! Where are they now?
One month after leaving for a “trip around the world with 80,000 friends,” the Colas family has already visited London, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Boston and New York, and they are presently in Washington, D.C. The last 4 weeks have been a time of shared experiences, togetherness, and lots of smiles and laughter. And it’s been [...]
