Our volunteer, Bob, who is currently in Sri Lanka applied to the Wild Fund for money to create English signs to go around the school he is volunteering in. It was felt by the staff and by Bob that exposure to English on a daily basis would benefit the children in their studying of the […]
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VESL Interview: Programme Manager
As we have asked our Student Leaders to do interviews and provide advice for our volunteers we also thought that we should give you some of our advice as past volunteers ourselves. So this interview comes from myself and I hope you find it useful!! I originally volunteered with VESL in September 2011 for three […]
Wild Fund used to promote hygiene in schools in India
Ingrid Masters volunteered in Kerala from January to March 2013, while she was there she used funding from the VESL Wild Fund and a personal donation to help improve sanitation and hygiene at the school she was volunteering in. Sanitation and hygiene is a really important issue for students in India as they use their right hand […]
Lauren does The Major Series
Lauren, our Programme Manager, has (bravely? stupidly?!) decided to sign up for the Major Series in 2013 to raise money, it is taking place on the 9th March in Tunbridge Wells. If you don’t know what the Major Series is, it is a MAJOR CHALLENGE (according to the website!), involving running, mud, water, hills and […]
Student Leader Diary – India 2012 – Opening a School Library
We were very lucky to receive a donation of books from Usborne Books before we left, and there was a great selection of books for the children to use. With these books and money we had raised, we decided, with permission of the school, that it would be good to start a school English library […]
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. […]
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 […]
MAKING THE MOST OF DONATIONS
We would firstly like to send an enormous thank you to Janet and Stuart Wild who have been able to successfully raise more than £1100 for VESL through their justgiving.com fundraising page. Family and friends helped to raise this fantastic donation as part of Janet and Stuart’s 25th wedding anniversary celebration and thanks must also go out […]
JUSTGIVING SUCCESS
The new fundraising pages with justgiving.com have proved to be a fantastic success. A few volunteers have raised well over their target; Millicent Scott in particular deserves an extra special thanks for successfully raising over £1500 and counting! We’d also like to send a huge thank you to Janet & Stuart Wild who’ve very kindly set up a fundraising page for […]
