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Thursday Apr 30, 2009

Crossing cultures

Hello! I'm Sally. I've grown up in the rural North-West of England, but am now enjoying a gap year, centered around volunteering, which is taking me to much farther corners fo the globe. So far, I've spent 6 weeks in India on "The Prime Minister's Global Fellowship", 3 monhs volunteering for a small grassroots NGO in Cambodia, and 6 weeks volunteering in Malawi.

So, I'm blogging to you from Malawi. The program is called "Global XChange", and is orchestrated by VSO and the British Council. It's a 6-month program, which gives 18-25 year-olds the opportunity to do volunteer work in a truly cross-cultural environment. 9 volutneers from across the UK team up with 9 volunteers from across Malawi (or another developing country), and spend 6 months- 3 in each country- volunteering and learning about Global Citizenship together. I had to fundraise 600 pounds to be on the program, and the rest is covered by VSO and the British Council.

I hope my gap year will give me skills and experience that I can channel in the future, so that I can really help people in a big way. I also want to help people now. So far, it's going brilliantly!

Posted by Sally ( 4:16 PM )
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