Responsible volunteer projects for dynamic people
My dear Mr.Hamish, Hope and pray that you are doing well and busy with your work.Here all of us are very happy with the volunteers you sent to our school. The students were very happy to have them among us and they interacted wonderfully well. The bond was so much that when they were leaving [...]
Two days left in India… What a journey it has been! Working at St Mary’s School was a brilliant experience and it will definitely stay with me for a very long time! My dad said its an opportunity where ‘you get out what you put in’. I couldn’t agree more. Teaching the children was so [...]
We are now 3 weeks into our volunteer work at St Mary’s School and I can easily say it feels like a part of heaven in India. I found the history of how Tibetan refugees came to be living in Dharamsala alarming at first and couldn’t help but sympathise with the families who had been [...]
So just had our second day at the school and it was awesome! We have all slotted into their routine really well and have been allocated certain lessons each day! Today my first class was maths and boy did I underestimate their ability! I was expecting fractions and multiplication but ohhh noooo….. it was my a [...]
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Great excitement here at mindthegap hq – our first group of volunteers (Elly, Kieran, Milly and Tom) are two weeks away from beginning their life-changing experience at St Mary’s, the countdown begins!
