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Reflections from Mozambique

July 31, 2018 in /by

By Eoin Cleary The people here aren’t poor. The word ‘poor’ is defined in the Oxford dictionary as “lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in society”. The lives the people live here are normal, normal to them. Just because we sit in Ireland and think about ‘The poor starving […]

“Hi teacher!” – A look at Vietnam Week 1

July 30, 2018 /1 Comment/in /by

  By Eve Harrington I am almost halfway through my volunteering experience here in Vietnam and already I have learned more than I had expected to at this stage of the journey. We are currently living in the village of Quoc Oui which, despite being referred to as a village, is actually not all huts, […]

Morning Star: Week 1

July 30, 2018 in /by

By Emma Byrne and Dorothee Driever On Sunday we visited Morning Star for the first time, we were greeted with so many happy faces and lots of little hands to be held. The school boys showed us around their beautiful home unlike any stereotypical children’s home setting. This non-clinical environment is surrounded by lots of trees […]

India: Week 1

July 29, 2018 /1 Comment/in /by

By Michelle Murphy I had so many expectations before arriving in Bangalore, months of thinking about what APD (Association for People with Disabilities) would be like, what would the people be like, what the site conditions would be like, would I be able to contribute in any small way? Firstly nothing you read nor no […]

Bom Día Mozambique

July 27, 2018 in /by

By Isabel Dwyer There are so many languages in the world but Mozambique has taught me that some things transcend speech. In the weeks leading up to the three flights it would take to get us from Dublin to Beira, I spent my time on Duolingo learning how to say ‘Bom Día’ over and over […]

First Impressions and Expectations

July 27, 2018 in /by

By Cillian O’Donovan My first impressions of Mozambique immediately shattered my expectations in almost every way. Firstly when we landed we were greeted by heavy rain, anytime I thought of my first volunteering trip in Africa I always Imagined scorching heat. Then I was worried that the language and culture barrier would take away from […]