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Thursday Feb 01, 2007

Going Back to School

As soon as a new volunteering opportunity comes up with Oxfam, I never seem to be far from the front of the queue!

The latest opportunity took me to York last weekend, where I found myself learning how to be a Oxfam School Speaker with lots of other Oxfam volunteers of all ages. The weekend was full of fun and interactive activities for us to have a go out and then become confident in delivering to school children from 8-18 years. Finding creative ways to engage people in learning about global citizenship covering a range of areas from 'what is Oxfam' to the 'Millennium Development Goals'.

I had an amazing weekend getting to know people and preparing myself for taking school assemblies and workshops, unfortunately I ended up spending the Saturday afternoon in bed after a migraine defeated me and quickly became aware of how caring the other members of the group were.

Posted by Helen Bryant ( 2:46 PM )
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