Before our bags were packed our egos were boosted. Our air was shrouded in arrogance. Friends, family and strangers fuelled our vanity: what we were…
It was 12:30am and I was keeled over the toilet of an airborne plane, throwing up the half-digested Red Rooster chips I’d forced myself to…
At a family dinner in Norway, just hours before I was about to leave everything I knew behind and get on a plane to Tanzania,…
“The trip was so inspiring, you know? Like, I really made a difference. I just feel so humbled too, because they had nothing, but they…
I woke most mornings at sunrise – mainly because Thailand has a way of helping you get to the toilet in a hurry. I’d shuffle…
We were at the end of our dubious four-and-a-half month voluntourist teaching placements in Northern Vietnam. We had by now overcome the shock of the…
Where I come from, children are placed in institutional care as a last resort. Unless it is strictly necessary, every effort is made for a…
Koh Rong: a paradisiacal island in Cambodia. It’s still not a major feature in the Lonely Planet or other guides, and remains a word-of-mouth kind…
After the awesomeness of my first volunteer experience working at an animal sanctuary in Thailand back in 2010, two years later, I was looking for…
As someone who’s spent a fair bit of time around the mud-brick hand-moulded blocks of the volunteer world, there are not enough words to encapsulate…
