skills-share – people and places

Volunteering Across Generations

16 June, 2026 Sallie Grayson

Written by Musufing Ceesay At People and Places, we celebrate and highlight the experience and wisdom that all our volunteers bring to community partnerships around the world. The diversity of our volunteers and their openness to expand their skills to a responsible volunteering framework, is even more inspiring. This has undoubtedly had a positive and lasting influence on our partner projects. We ask for experience, knowledge and skills that match the needs of our partner projects, that doesn’t specify an…

we need your teaching skills – and not only in schools

28 October, 2017 Sallie Grayson

Definition of teach: “cause (someone) to learn or understand something by example or experience.” Definition of skill: “The ability to do something well; expertise.” That’s what we are all about in all our volunteer projects {As an aside we are proud that our programme is a skills-share programme. However, we need to use the term “volunteer” because in this Google search age the vast majority of people use the word “volunteer” when they do their searches – not “skills-share”.} Many…