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Overseas Challenge is an overseas volunteering project in partnership with educational charity VESL.
www.vesl.org.uk
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Volunteer roles include, teaching conversational English classes, running summer schools, teaching art therapy and sports therapy classes, working in orphanages, children's homes and schools.
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Overseas Challenge 2008
Five intrepid Volunteering MMU volunteers headed out to Andra Pradesh, India, to volunteer on two projects in late July 08. They spent a month working on two projects; Brighter Future HIV Hospice in Vizanagaram and HEAL residential school for children from deprived areas in Guntur. The volunteers made the national news with a feature article in The Hindu Times and have been very well received by both projects.
Becky, who went to Vizianagram said:
"..6 year old Laxmi ( a girl that particularly stole my heart) who never spoke is now saying letters and some names! I hope to return to Prem Nivas again, this time for longer than a month- I am missing the children already!
I'd like to say a huge giant THANK YOU to everyone who offered support both financial and emotional when I was preparing for the project."
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Overseas Challenge 2009
This year, four new intrepid Volunteering MMU volunteers are heading out to the Brighter Futures projects in Andra Pradesh, India and 8 Volunteering MMU volunteers headed to a variety of projects in Chaing Rai, Thailand.
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Overseas Challenge 2010
If you are interested in Overseas Challenge 2010, then please email us at volunteering@mmu.ac.uk |
