Minna From Finland
Not a single day have I regretted my decision to join SCI:s volunteer project "Peace Center project". I applied for Peace Center project taking place in Sri Lanka in a small village 'Mutur'. The only thing I knew about my project beforehands was that I was going to teach English in local schools and additionally organize some afternoon and evening classes at Peace Center. My expectations were met, and beyond. Not only I had a chance to teach local children in schools and local young adults at Peace Center, but also I got to join another project for poor widow mothers with the goal of providing them training modules about "how to support your child's education". My coordinator and all the members of SCI are very flexible and willing to adjust volunteer projects according to volunteers' wishes and abilities. As I am an undergraduate university student in psychology, I had a great opportunity to practice useful skills with the widow's project and also share some of my psychological knowledge. I got to visit some of the widow's families and interview them, prepare for training materials together with local staff or volunteers and happily before my volunteer time ended, I got to attend the first training session with all the widow mothers. That time we noticed that long time research and preparing of the modules was definitely worth it: the widows were very happy about the workshop and wished for more such programs. Mo-Fri: 8:30 am 2 hours morning classes at...
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