“Things are amazing here, better than I ever could have imagined. I feel like I’m fitting in well with my host family and I’ve made lots of friends, and seen so much already. I am really enjoying my project, working in the special needs unit is fun and the kids are fantastic.” – Alexandra Quinn, […]
Maltby Academy raise over £700 for Active Global Citizens Project
The students of Maltby Academy, near Rotherham, have raised over £700 for our partner charity (VeSSS) in India. The Year 10 students organised a non uniform day and cake sale to raise the money. The students were inspired to raise the funds after attending a VESL ‘Active Global Citizens‘ workshop (backed by Global Community Links) which was […]
Successful Thailand Teacher Workshops 2011
Congratulations to all the VESL volunteers who ran the teacher workshop programme in Northern Thailand this summer. The five volunteers, Dick and Dee Wardell, Sarah Greenwood, Laura Heathfield and Lisa Gornall all did a fantatstic job and were warmly praised by all the teachers they worked with. The team ran a series of two day […]
Active Global Citizens
VESL was pleased to be awarded a grant by the British Council / DFID to run a Global Community Links Programme between Dec and August 2011. VESL, alongside its partner NGO in Southern India, VeSSS, ran a series of workshops for young people across the UK. Nearly 300 young people attended the workshops which were run […]
VESL becomes a member of UKOWLA
VESL has become a member of UKOWLA, an organisation that helps to promote global links in Education. UKOWLA is a consortium member of the DFID through the Global School Partnerships led by the British Council with support from VSO and Cambridge Education Foundation. By supporting UKOWLA we hope to be able to develop links with the organisations across Asia, support school partnerships and encourage UK […]
Active Global Citizens Programme
VESL was very pleased, alongside our link organisation in Kerala (VeSSS), to receive a grant from UK Aid to run the a VESL devised initiative called ‘Active Global Citizens Programme’. The Active Global Citizens programme encourages past VESL volunteers to run a workshops for young people in the UK. During these workshops young people will […]
PAST VOLUNTEER TEACHING TEFL
A few people have recently asked if we could recommend a TEFL taster course in London… One of VESL’s past volunteers is now a qualified TEFL teacher and has actually offered to give VESL volunteers a special discount to her TEFL weekend workshop course. If anyone is interested in finding out more details please contact […]
THAI PROG. MANAGER UK VISIT
VESL’s Thailand Programme Manager (Nueng Yanarangsee) has just returned home after a very successful visit to the UK. Nueng travelled to the UK with one of our project hosts (Pongsri) and the Director of Mengrai school (Mr. Garan) and his wife. The aim of the visit is to enable the teachers to experience and learn […]
THAI TEACHER WORKSHOP SUCCESS
Our Teacher Workshop Team have just returned from our programme in Northern Thailand this summer and the feedback they received from the schools and Thai teachers who attended has been fantastic. We’d like to take this opportunity to send a huge thank you to the team for all the hard work they put into making […]
GLOBAL COMMUNITY LINKS PROGRAMME
VESL and VeSSS have submitted an application to gain recognition from the Global Community Links Programme run by the British Council and the DFID. Our hope is to qualify for funding to establish a joint project with VeSSS in Kerala (Southern India) and the UK.
MEETING WITH SRI LANKAN MINISTER FOR PEACE
VESL’s trustees were extremely honoured to receive a formal request to meet with Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Sri Lanka’s Minister for Peace, earlier this week during his visit to the UK. Prof. Wijesinha was keen to discuss the possibility of VESL returning to Sri Lanka’s Northeast with an aim to establish a new programme supporting educational […]
WORLD OF DIFFERENCE INTERNATIONAL GRANTS
We’d like to thank everyone who has been in touch to enquire about applying to work for VESL via Vodafone’s World of Difference International grant programme. Vodafone aims to select 8 winners from over 1000 applicants, each of whom will receive a grant to work overseas for their chosen charity for 12 months. It’s been so encouraging […]
NEW LINK WITH KERALA BASED NGO
VESL is very pleased to have formed a new link with the Venad Social Service Society (VeSSS) in India. VeSSS is based in Trivandrum in Kerela and works with traditional fishing communities in the state. VESL will be sending it first volunteers to work with VeSSS this summer and aim to establish a number of […]
MOSQUITO NETS FOR HILL TRIBE SCHOOL
During Tom Harrison’s (VESL Programme Director) project visit to Chiang Rai in Northern Thailand he was able to deliver nearly £350 to one of the rural hill tribe schools to which we send volunteers. The money was raised by Keele University to buy much needed mosquito nets for all the students from the surrounding tribes […]
