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Week 1 volunteering at Sumanahalli.

July 21, 2015 in /by

By Ciara Naughton and Erika D’Costa Sumanahalli translates as the “village of good hearts”. We start every morning in the leprosy clinic along with a French volunteer who has taught us how the leprosy clinic is run.  Our initial reaction was one of fear; we thought that it would be very difficult to become accustomed […]

Week 1 volunteering at ‘Morning Star’

July 21, 2015 in /by

By Sinéad Hoctor & Abbie Gilkinson This week we began our journey at Morning Star. We were welcomed with open arms by everybody here and already feel part of this loving community Our mornings and afternoons have been spent getting to know the boys and men with special educational needs and disabilities, learning their wants […]

SERVE: Recruitment of Chief Executive Officer

July 17, 2015 in /by

SERVE: Chief Executive Officer SERVE is a development and volunteering organisation committed to tackling poverty in the developing world.  SERVE strives to do this by working in solidarity, service and partnership with marginalised and oppressed communities, empowering them to tackle the root causes of poverty and injustice. The Board of SERVE is recruiting a Chief […]

Dumela from South Africa!

July 15, 2015 /4 Comments/in /by

By Niamh Fanthom “Dumela”, meaning “hello”. I have learned that this is the most significant and probably the most valuable word in my Tswetswana vocabulary. One may think that it lacks depth; but from one stranger (me) to another (a fellow South African), here in Rustenburg this one simple word creates conversation and friendships. Throughout […]

Mozambique update: Working Week 1

July 13, 2015 in , /by

By Helena Brecht With five working days complete, what have we been up to in Mozambique? The week started with the group out on the farm in Dondo, watering tomato and bean plants, as well as planting lettuce for the drip irrigation that was put in recently. We were working side by side with local […]

Communities Prepare for More Disaster Resilient Future

July 10, 2015 in , , /by

Climate change makes things worse, skewing disaster impacts even more towards poorer communities. Rapid urbanisation has led to poorer people being marginalised from safe and legal areas in many developing countries, forcing many to live in high risk locations, such as flood plains, river banks, steep slopes and reclaimed land. In these unplanned squatter settlements, homes are […]

Arrival in the Philippines

July 10, 2015 in /by

By Peter Hanley and Fainche McCarney After an exhausting journey to the Philippines we were bundled into the back of a van to be whisked away to the Holy Family Retreat House in Cebu. Though we travelled though the city at night we could feel the city pulsing with life as its many inhabitants and […]

A Displaced Society

July 9, 2015 in , /by

By Aoibheann Boyle Aoibheann is participating in the Silver Global Citizen Award. This is the first of her Global Blogs from the Philippines.  My granduncle, who for the duration of 42 years worked in the Philippines with the Columban Brothers, came to visit me last Saturday. He described this sovereign island country in the Southwest […]