Volunteering in a developing world? Why not!

The feeling of being away from my home country and to live eleven weeks a completely different life was just great. I came to Coventry already one week before the term started so that I could help with the Warwick Orientation Programme for international students. Being a helper was a really good experience for me and I am pretty happy that Warwick is such an international university consisting over 150 nationalities.

I have decided to begin this year with studying pretty hard, doing a lot of other activities and last but not least to write essays in advance. However, even though you have sometimes great ideas and dedication it might not go as you wanted because your body says “stop” and doesn’t give you enough energy for all the activities. This happened to me and some virus has been preventing me in doing various things for almost one month. Anyway, that’s  all from the negative news and I will tell you something about my volunteering commitments now.

When I was thinking about my future career during the summer holiday, I decided that the best path for me could be in the development. This year I have Politics of Developing Areas module where we are focusing on development theories, during the second term we will discuss more practical issues of development. Furthermore, to gain even broader picture about developing areas I have decided to do some volunteering in one of developing countries next summer (preferably in India, Tanzania or Argentina). When I searched for some volunteering programmes I came across “Warwick in Africa” which is a programme from our university where students teach English or mathematics in schools in South Africa, Tanzania or Ghana. Selected students for this programme have to raise for charity 500 pounds, take part in training sessions and then they are ready to go to one of these three countries for 6 weeks! I would like to go probably to Tanzania. However, to be successfully selected, I have to have some previous experience with teaching. Thus, I have decided to do another volunteering – Student Tutoring – where Warwick students go to schools and assist teachers with classes. This volunteering will fully start in the second term and I am really looking forward to it and hope it will bring me a lot of new experiences.

 So, to volunteer in a developing country, because every small help and change to the better does count. It is necessary to do small things first so that they could grow up into bigger ones! I hope I can do this.

 

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