The road less travelled
As a former Short-Term Overseas Volunteer, Communications intern, Full-time staff member, and then Long-term overseas volunteer with SERVE (placed with Young Africa in Mozambique), Lindsay Cleary now writes as the coordinator of her own ‘Young Africa’ project in Zambia, along with her partner Mark (also a former SERVE volunteer). Lindsay writes about how her overseas volunteer experience led her on a path to a change in career, and shares the elements that took her from short-term volunteering to a coordinator of her own project within the Young Africa family.
Click below to read the article, as featured in Comhlamh’s VolOps newpaper