Volunteering in Uganda: Masindi
In 2019 I went on a 40 days volunteering trip in Uganda. A slightly crazy and improvised journey that helped me to get to know Africa a little bit more.
In 2019 I went on a 40 days volunteering trip in Uganda. A slightly crazy and improvised journey that helped me to get to know Africa a little bit more.
My volunteering experiences had always been with organisations I either personally knew or had good connections with. They were NGOs, missionaries or even simply friends that had won my trust.
The words “volunteering” and “cooperation” are often confused and used as if they were interchangeable. What a volunteer and a cooperator have in common, especially seen from a not expert eye, is a generic wish to help in a situation of distress that doesn’t touch the two figures personally.
Belgium is a country known for beer, chocolate, moules-frites, European politics, rain and comics.
Let’s try to go beyond these common places and find an alternative side of Belgium!
These pictures and stories are a collection of my experience during a volunteering trip to the Philippines
Stories and what transform a travel into something to be told and shared. And since pictures speaks more than words, here are my stories from Tanzania to reed and look at.
A comment I often hear when I tell about my volunteering trips is “I wouldn’t be able to do what you did”. This sentence always leaves me perplex. I look at these people and I’m sure that what they are saying is actually not true at all.
The average life expectancy in Italy is around 82 years, in the US is only slightly lower. In Haiti is around 64, the lowest of the entire American continent. Crossing the border to reach the other half of the island, the green Dominican Republic, gives you about 10 more years