Barring last minute glitches we are due to start a 27 month Voluntary Service Overseas placement in Nepal on 18 February. Assuming we can get reasonable internet access there, we will try to use this blog to keep our family and friends up to date with our news.
The story so far……….
Having talked about volunteering for years, we finally got round to applying earlier this year. After an interesting (think working as a team to make scrap pads out of newspaper) assessment day Sheila was selected as a volunteer with me tagging along as an “accompanying partner”. The reason for this was that we concluded that Sheila’s skills in children’s education were more useful than mine in venture capital / fund management / bean counting and she was more likely to get a placement than me. After a couple of months and 2 placements that didn’t quite fit, Sheila was offered one as an Education Adviser in Bhaktapur (about 15km east of Kathmandu), Nepal. The job looked a good fit for Sheila and we both thought a city in Nepal was probably the best location we could get – our time in New Delhi would provide some preparation for it and many placements are in rural areas which we are not intrepid enough to cope with. After some due diligence, most usefully e-mails and phone calls with serving volunteers in Nepal, we accepted the placement and that’s pretty much where we are today. I don’t have any placement yet but VSO Nepal have promised to do their best to find me something.
Not sure there will be anything more to add until we get to Nepal but if I get bored over Christmas I might test my skills by adding some photos of Nepal.
Have a great Christmas and New Year.
Cheers
Roshan
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