We’ve been able to collate photos from a number of our 2011 volunteers and have just added 4 new photo galleries… Kerala 2011 Thanks go to Elaine Abili & Kath McGuire for their photos from the summer of 2011. Elaine was helping to develop a new project in Southern Kerala for 3 months from June […]
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A review of 2011
2011 has certainly been a busy year for VESL… here are a few highlights from the year : Kerala We had great success with our new programme working in schools within fishing communities in Kerala (South India). All of this year’s volunteers did a magnificent job in helping to lay down the foundations of this programme. […]
VESL Volunteers Profiled in Adult Gap Year Guide
Two of VESL’s past volunteers in India and Sri Lanka have been profiled in Susan Giffith’s new book, ‘Gap Year’s for Grown Ups’
Why can’t I volunteer in India for more than 5 months?
As things currently stand, the Indian authorities ‘issue‘ a visa to start on the ‘date of issue‘ rather than the ‘date of entry‘; in other words, your visa runs from the date it gets stamped into your passport. This means that you’ll need to leave the application until as late as is comfortably possible. In […]
PAST VOLUNTEERS HELP RAISE MONEY FOR PROJECTS
We would like to thank Elizabeth Munns (VESL Volunteer 2007) for all her fundraising efforts over the last year to help raise money towards a project working in rural communities within Andhra Pradesh. The project is ran by Mr Bharavi (VESL in-country Manager) and his wife and aims to educate and support Jogini women and their children […]
CANNING TRUST GRANT for INDIAN PROJECT
VESL recently presented an application to the Canning Trust to help secure a school house for an orphanage that we work with in Northern Andhra Pradesh in India. We are overjoyed to announce that the Canning Trust have kindly granted £4000 to the project and purchase of the school house can now go ahead. We would like […]
TEAMING UP WITH MMU
VESL is delighted to team up with Manchester Met University to launch a new joint project called ‘Challenge India’. In August 2008 the first set of Manchester Met volunteers will be heading out to Andhra Pradesh; one group will be working in a hospice for children with HIV/AIDS and the other group will be teaching […]
Volunteer Feedback – Anna-Kristina Larsson, India Volunteer 2007
This feedback was sent to us whilst Anna was still on project in Andhra Pradesh, Southern India, in 2007. Background Anna’s project was a 3 month project which involved teaching in a number of small primary schools and local NGO support work. The project was located within a rural area of north-eastern Andhra Pradesh, […]
PROGRAMME VISITS
VESL’s Programme Directors, Tom Harrison and Ian Livingstone, have now returned from this year’s project visits in India and Sri Lanka. Our Indian programme is new for 2007 but work has been going on to establish the programme for almost two years. A great deal of hard work and effort has been put into the […]
