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Monday Jul 14, 2008

Meeting the volunteers

In my last post, I mentioned I was hoping to meet a group of volunteers who are visiting Swansea with the GlobalXchange programme. The group have already spent three months in South Africa and are spending a further three months in Swansea. Flik and I recently attended one of their weekly citizenship days, where they were discussing human trafficking, and talked to two volunteers about their experiences so far.

I talked to Keenan from South Africa who is volunteering with Peace Mala and Discovery. Keenan is finding the second phase of the programme more challenging now that he's away from home and he's already noticed some big cultural differences between the two countries. Keenan is passionate about youth volunteering at home and has found that young people in Britain aren't as enthusiastic about getting involved in their communities. He also talked about attitudes to alcohol and was shocked at how easy it is for young people in Britain to get it.    

After having spoken to Keenan and seeing what the volunteers get up to I'm quite envious! I think that other Millennium Volunteers in Swansea will be interested to learn more about the programme and those involved in it. I'm hoping that the feature will go on the front page.

I’m off to write up my article now!

 

Posted by Catherine ( 11:45 AM )
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