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Overseas Challenge
Overseas Challenge is an overseas volunteering project in partnership with educational charity VESL.

www.vesl.org.uk

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.


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."


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.


Overseas Challenge 2010

If you are interested in Overseas Challenge 2010, then please email us at volunteering@mmu.ac.uk
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