Our
volunteers have created a awareness about the Love Care
center to everyone in UK and they wanted to do more
for the LCC. we are preveledged to have such dedicated
volunteers, because David and yourself and Krish who
are equally dedicated towards the cause and upliftment
of the poor. thank you once again for sending such volunteers
and more to come. Sophia, India
Participant
Feedback - India
Chennai
has all the surreal elements of classic India: vivid
colour, monkeys, mangos and wandering cows. All of these
things hit you as soon as you arrive, the hope of being
eased gently into Indian life couldnt be possible.
What
actually happens is, you are thrown into all the elements
of india both surreal and paradoxical. Once you have
overcome this aspect of India, the next challenge is
the placement, however you need not be nervous.
The
children are so friendly and even before you have time
to draw breath, they have all crowded round you and
are desperate for hugs. Each time I hugged a child their
faces lit up, it did give me areal sense of fulfillment,
and I really did want to take each and every child home.
Besides the placement we did other things.
Everyone
went to Mallaparaum where I encountered monkeys. One
stole my bottle of water, and then drank it. A tip for
everyone going out to India, Stay away from the monkeys!
Lizzy
Hejnowicz
I'm
really wondering where the last six months have gone.
When I arrived it felt like i'd never leave but now
it's come to an end all too quickly and I find myself
hating the idea of leaving!
The
last few weeks at the Love Care Center have been amazing.
We've been teaching lessons again and I'm back with
first standard. We're really trying to nail the numbers
one to ten but as I'm not a trained teacher and their
attention span is never more than 20minutes, it is a
little bit of as challenge.
We
also had a great day last friday when it was one of
the volunteers birthday. We scrapped lessons for the
day and had a huge party with balloons and cake. We
played musical statues, pass-the-parcel, apple bobbing
and flour bobbing which was so so so much fun. It was
crazy to find out that most of the kids had never played
pass-the-parcel thinking that almost all kids in the
UK have played it before they can walk! Phil, UK
Australia
- outback cattle stations
My
days have been pretty varied, the last few days have
been good; mustering, draftting the cattle we mustered
and then today we branded, castrated, de-horned, ear
tagged andgave steroids to all the calves! We also managed
to pick up two "potted" calves whose mothers had either
been lost in the muster or who had died. These two calves
are living at the house with the two baby goats, snowflake
andcrunchy nut!
...If
you wanted to go out to Oz and do your own thing for
a while, and then join up with the changing worlds program,
they will take the cost of the flights off your fee,
and arrange the rest of the experience for you. That
way, you just have to meet up with the other zoo volunteers
and the changing worlds rep on a specified date and
start from there. The possibilities are endless. If
you wanted any more advice I would also recommend you
give someone at changing worlds a ring to see if they
are what you are looking for. They were pefect for me,
but you need to be sure its right for you. Laura, UK
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