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News from 2010, 21 entries
August 30th, 2010
Projects Abroad Receives a Flurry of Media ActivityProjects Abroad has recently appeared in major US media outlets. Most notably, founder and Director Dr. Peter Slowe was featured in the August 24th edition of The New York Times as the subject of their “Frequent Flier” column.
August 19th, 2010
1000th Peru Conservation Volunteer Arrives at TaricayaLast month the 1000th Peru Conservation volunteer arrived on the project. Conservation Director Stuart Timson tells us more: “All in all it has been a fantastically successful summer in Taricaya and we have achieved so much."
August 17th, 2010
Mystery Parcels Delivered to Projects Abroad RomaniaMircea Samoila the Projects Abroad Romania Director had a surprise delivery last week. As he was at his desk answering emails he was interrupted by a delivery man. Mircea was amazed to hear that the delivery weighed 385kg! What could it be?
July 20th, 2010
Wright Way for Volunteer Health and Safety TrainingFor Madeleine Wright teaching schoolchildren health and safety skills in Ghana last year has changed her life. The 22-year-old university student taught at the Voice Preparatory School in Koforidua and quickly realized that health and safety was not a top priority.
July 16th, 2010
Human Rights Volunteers Meet World Cup Band in South AfricaProjects Abroad Human Rights volunteers Talbot Beck and Justin Miller met the lead singer last week from the South African band, The Brothers Streep who played the FIFA stage during the World Cup.
June 25th, 2010
Volunteers Join the Soccer Fever in South Africa!Cape Town, South Africa is infused with World Cup fever. You can feel it everywhere in the city, with national flags flying everywhere you look. People are dressed in bright Bafana Bafana jerseys and vuvuzelas are endlessly buzzing in the background.
June 10th, 2010
Medicine Volunteers Deliver an HIV Presentation in JamaicaThe volunteers delivered a comprehensive presentation on 'the effects, stigma and discrimination of HIV positive children'. The information and presentations from the workshop will be distributed to appropriate placements and businesses.
June 3rd, 2010
Where Have all the Dugongs Gone?Projects Abroad is starting a new Marine Mammal Conservation volunteer project in Mozambique. The dugong has been hunted for thousands of years for the use of its meat and for oil. The dugong as a species is vulnerable to extinction and is now referred to as one of the rarest mammals on earth.
May 28th, 2010
Move Over Rhianna, Volunteers Learn to Reggae DanceThere is nothing quite as revitalizing after a hard day at work as kicking off your work shoes and putting on your dancing shoes! Our volunteers in Jamaica regularly have the chance to attend typical Jamaican reggae dance classes.
May 25th, 2010
Projects Abroad Launches Two New DestinationsBem-Vindo, Chào Mừng! Projects Abroad is proud to announce two new destinations - Vietnam and Mozambique, taking our total up to 26. Mozambique will be taking volunteers from the late summer to get involved with Marine Mammal Conservation as well as Teaching and Care projects.
May 19th, 2010
Volunteers Receive First Aid Training AbroadAlex Harris first joined Projects Abroad as a medical volunteer in India with Projects Abroad. However, Alex, who is a fully qualified first-aid instructor, impressed us all with his enthusiasm and willingness to be more involved. Projects Abroad offered for Alex to travel to six of our destinations to provide basic First Aid training to the volunteers and to give some of the overseas staff a refresher course.
April 27th, 2010
Drama Volunteers Needed in Romania for August 2010The Drama Project in Romania is a fantastic project to get involved in at any time throughout the year, however, volunteers who are in the country at the end of August will get to take part in the 12th annual T4T Theater Festival, which brings together theater groups from all over Europe.
April 22nd, 2010
Director, Dr Peter Slowe hits the US airwaves!Projects Abroad Director, Dr Peter Slowe appeared in a radio interview in Philadelphia this week. Peter spoke to WNWR-AM’s weekly show “Dining and Destinations” about Projects Abroad and the varied volunteer programs we run overseas.
April 12th, 2010
Here Comes the Summer!How about doing something worthwhile over the holidays? Our wide range of 2-Week High School Specials programs are the perfect opportunity to experience a gap year taster either during a school vacation or in the summer before starting college.
March 10th, 2010
Cambodia Conservation Project Update By Suzi Lamb, International Development ManagerIn February 2010, almost one year on from my first visit to Koh Rong Samleom I returned to the island. Last year I visited to make final checks before our first volunteer arrived in March, this year I was greeted by 16 volunteers and I was arriving with three more!
March 05th, 2010
Volunteers Complete Teacher Training Project in PeruEach year in Peru during the long school holidays in January and February we run a teacher training program for the local Peruvian English teachers. The scheme is very popular with the local teachers and we rely on the volunteers to keep running the course.
March 01st, 2010
Romania Drama Volunteers Host Charity EventMonday night last week was a big night for Projects Abroad Romania volunteers as they held a drama charity event for the Vulcani Hospital, and presented the talent behind their very own drama program Black Juice.
February 01st, 2010
A Passion for Education – New Teaching Project in GhanaProjects Abroad volunteers in Ghana are now working with the Future Leaders Underprivileged Children’s Center in Accra. This school now teaches more than 80 children, however, it started with just 5 children being taught in the shade of a mango tree.
January 27th, 2010
Projects Abroad Nepal Fund Medical CampMedical volunteers in Nepal were able to attend a gynecology medical camp for a day on the 16th January. The camp was organized and funded by Projects Abroad in association with Dholahiti Community Health Services Center.
January 19th, 2010
Computers Landing in Cape Coast, Ghana!When you were a child, did you dream of super machines, huge space ships and other worlds? With increasing access to computers you can access these worlds just by pressing an ‘enter’ key.
January 2nd, 2010
New Year CelebrationsHappy New Year from all at Projects Abroad.
One of the great things about Projects Abroad is seeing the contrasting ways that our destinations celebrate different events.
Latest news from 2009
December 11th, 2009
Volunteers needed in Romania for special Archaeology projectDue to drastic governmental budget cuts, the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania is in danger of no longer being able to do its work of finding the victims of a murderous regime, and is in need of our volunteers’ help.
December 10th, 2009
Projects Abroad hold soccer tournament in GhanaThe annual George and Rita Briton Cup tournament, organized each year by Projects Abroad, took place on December 4 and 5, 2009 at the Prisons Park in Accra. Tom Davies, Country Director of Projects Abroad Ghana explained that the event forms part of his outfit's social responsibility to develop local talent.
December 4th, 2009
2010 Soccer World Cup Draw - African StyleToday the mother city of South Africa, Cape Town will host the draw for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. This promises to be a vibrant traditional African affair welcoming the competition to the continent for the first time in history.
December 3rd, 2009
Projects Abroad donates paints to Shelter for Abused Children in GhanaVolunteers from the Human Rights project have been working with the Shelter for Abused Children in Ghana and the Department of Social Welfare for some time now. The shelter is located at Osu Ako-Adjei in Accra, just five minutes walk from the Projects Abroad Human Rights Office.
November 24th, 2009
Projects Abroad Pro – new website online nowSeventeen years after we founded Projects Abroad, we have started Projects Abroad Pro. We are bringing all our experience and expertise, and all our contacts and influence, to ensure that volunteers with recognized skills and qualifications can contribute meaningfully in a wide variety of placements all over the developing world.
November 6th, 2009
Check out the latest videos from Jamaica on FacebookThe Projects Abroad Jamaica group on Facebook, www.facebook.com is attracting more and more past, present and future volunteers. Search Projects Abroad Jamaica to join the Jamaica Facebook group.
October 20th, 2009
Conservation in Mexico - return to the turtle campMy return visit to the turtle camp after almost five years was everything I expected. Although the camp was not at the location that I volunteered at as a gap year student five years ago, the camp at Tecoman has been up and running for almost four years now.
October 13th, 2009
Care volunteers needed in Bolivia from January to March 2010!Ciudadela SEDEGES is a state run orphanage that we have been working with since 2002 (previously known as Alejandro Magno). The state only provides funding for the salaries of most care workers for 10 months; March through to December.
September 25th, 2009
Volunteers help Cantonments clean up their actVolunteers, staff and players gathered bright and early one morning last week by the side of the pitch at Cantonments Soccer Club in Accra, Ghana. The task for the day was not about winning matches, but rather coming together to help the local community.
September 24th, 2009
Exciting opportunities at Ho Leprosy village, GhanaBy Ian Birbeck – Recruitment Director
Before visiting our volunteers in Ho I had been in touch with Ailsa Murray who was a medical volunteer working in Ho. Ailsa has been a regular volunteer with Projects Abroad, previously working in Sri Lanka and Moldova.
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