Remember – e-volunteer programme – still a 50% reduction!

Remember – e-volunteer programme – still a 50% reduction!

It’s fantastic that our volunteers can travel again but this doesn’t suit everyone. We set up our e-volunteering programme during COVID – supporting our programmes without travelling. This can be done in the Gambia, Cambodia and Morocco. We can match a range of volunteer skills to local needs for online volunteering, exactly as for volunteering in-country. Watch this short video to hear how Linda used her business and finance skills to support women from No Woman Left Behind, a women’s…

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Volunteer artist creates beauty at Treak Community Centre

Volunteer artist creates beauty at Treak Community Centre

Denise (an artist who creates stunning murals) volunteered at Treak in March – she has certainly left her mark. Working with local staff and children she has created beautiful murals to enhance the surroundings which can also be used to enhance the curriculum. So think outside the box – you don’t have to be a teacher to do valuable work at this school. Read on to see what she says. ‘Spending one glorious month in Cambodia creating murals was one…

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Treak’s social enterprise growing in leaps and bounds with the help of volunteers

Treak’s social enterprise growing in leaps and bounds with the help of volunteers

An update from Sallie. When I was in Cambodia in November I reported on the launch of a new social enterprise to support Treak community. Wow what Salin has achieved in just 6 months! Volunteers have helped her with product design, website design, costings and marketing. Treak Creations now has a website – and is selling in Cambodia to locals and travellers. My favourite item is the school uniform – for just $15 we can buy a school uniform for…

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We catch up with our SA local partner, but in the UK for a change

We catch up with our SA local partner, but in the UK for a change

Our South Africa partner, Kate from Good Work Foundation, was recently in the UK, speaking at a conference and catching up with family and friends. This was too good an opportunity to miss – a chance to meet up with one of our local partners without having to get on a plane! So we chose a point not too difficult for any of us to reach by train or road and Sallie and I met Kate for a late breakfast….

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How far you’ve come in 15 years! – happy birthday to the Institute of Tourism in the Gambia

How far you’ve come in 15 years! – happy birthday to the Institute of Tourism in the Gambia

written by Sallie When I first met Adama 20 years ago ITTOG (The Institute of Travel and Tourism of The Gambia), a college to train Gambians to enable them to access well paid jobs in the tourist industry, was his dream – to give Gambian youth the skills they needed to compete for jobs mostly held by non Gambians in the all important tourism industry -responsible tourism. ITTOG started simply using course content shared with them by Nottingham University. Then…

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Volunteers at work – in pictures

Volunteers at work – in pictures

Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers – those who have travelled and those who have worked from home as e-volunteers to support our volunteer programme since we have been able to travel post-Covid. Here are some great pictures of some of our volunteers at work during the last year. To learn more about all these projects follow these links to our project pages for in-country placements and for e-volunteer placements or email dianne@travel-peopleandplaces.co.uk

Wondering what to do on a Saturday morning in February?  Here’s a date for your diary

Wondering what to do on a Saturday morning in February?  Here’s a date for your diary

The holiday season is over so you are unlikely to be meeting family and friends.  It’s too early in the year to get out in the garden.  It may well be cold and rainy so not the day to go into town.  Why not attend our next online social?  An opportunity to meet us, our partners and project staff from the different countries where we work, and previous, current and prospective volunteers.  We promise you a friendly welcome.  SATURDAY FEBRUARY…

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Women’s empowerment volunteer programme off to a great start

Women’s empowerment volunteer programme off to a great start

Earlier this year I wrote about the women’s empowerment programme we are working with in The Gambia Click on the image above to read my previous post The association has come so far in the last 6 months – here’s an update And hot off the press and very exciting – funding for the second year of the course to cover simple business skills is now guaranteed for 2023 (the funders withdrew this money in 2022 due to budget cuts)…

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It was wonderful to be back in Cambodia!

It was wonderful to be back in Cambodia!

In October Sallie and I travelled to Siem Reap to visit our partners at ConCERT Cambodia and Treak Community Centre.  We have done so much work with them online in the last three years, but this was our first in-country visit since the pandemic and it was wonderful to be back!  Treak Community Centre had to close on a number of occasions during the pandemic and they are only just back to full-time opening.  So it was fantastic to see…

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What an impact our e-volunteer programme is having in Morocco!

What an impact our e-volunteer programme is having in Morocco!

Anyone wanting evidence of the importance of this programme had only to attend our online social a few weeks ago.  Since 2020 volunteers have been working online with house-mothers and girls at the Education for All boarding houses to build their confidence and fluency in spoken English. Latifa, the house-mother due to participate in the social, had to drop out on the morning of the event and Khadija, house-mother of Dar Asni 3, stepped in at a moment’s notice.  To…

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