Jenna Richards: Out in Korea

‘The land of morning calm’ sounded like exactly what I needed after a very stressful year doing a masters degree, working for the student newspaper and holding down a part time job. It was for this reason, and the money I could make working as an English teacher, I decided to go to South Korea [...]

Staying with nuns in India

Dominique Gelder-Smith
1. How old are you and what’s your occupation?
I am 19 and I am currently on a gap year
2. What made you decide to go to India?
I’d never thought of it until my friend asked me if I’d like to go with her
so that her parents wouldn’t get too worried about her.
3. Which organisation [...]

Disaster volunteering: Helping tsunami victims in Thailand

Chris Beaumont, 33, Bradford, West Yorkshire, Carpenter and dive master
Tsunami
1. Where did you go to volunteer after the tsunami?
Spent all my time in Thailand after that spent all my money and back to the uk
2. How long did you go for?
I was there three months after for four months , went back to uk to [...]

Disaster volunteering: Helping tsunami victims in Sri Lanka

Sarah Smith
25
West Yorkshire
Works for a national magazine
Volunteered in Sri Lanka in March helping victims of the tsunami
1) I wanted to volunteer to help out a worthy cause after seeing several
documentaries on tv, and working closely with I-to-I and understanding more
about what they do. I had always wanted to broaden my horizons and step out
of my [...]

CAS Nepal

1. What does your organization do?
CAS-Nepal is a non-profit making, non-political community based organization. It was registered with Nepal Government-Chitwan in 2000 & with Social Welfare Council-Nepal in 2001 by highly enthusiastic board members. The primary goal of CAS-Nepal is to make community self -dependent & developed through utilization of local, national and international resources [...]

gunilla funch bangalore placement

Gunilla Funch

22
Born: Copenhagen, Denmark
Live: Edinburgh, Scotland
Arrived at University of Edinburgh, October 2003
International Business with French

Went on placement in India at Rave magazine, based in Bangalore, India. I thought that it was an easy way of going abroad and working while travelling, if I had a placement then I’d at least have something to [...]