The problem with setting goals is that you often unexpectedly achieve them.
I had emailed VSO in a bid to help out a great organisation that I knew from previous experience really could change lives for the good. Happy with my job in Devon but searching for something I used to have in way of trying to do a spot of good, getting back to my roots that had inspired by a decade ago. I Googled the communications unit and offered my services in any way that might help.
And here I am, less than 6 months later, in 35c Thailand!
The idea behind the trip was to try and somehow quantify some of the good things done volunteers in their Thai projects. Find a paper trail between a volunteer, giving up two years of their lives, family and friends, the huge resources and commitment poured in by VSO, and an outcome.
Nothing so far has been as previously imagined in meetings in Putney or from the safety of a British winter in Putney.
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