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.
Volunteering abroad: stories from volunteers in Africa
While I usually tell my own experiences on this blog, today I’ve asked other volunteers to tell theirs. What they saw during their volunteering travels abroad, what struck them, who they met in Africa.
Volunteering and travels: stories of work opportunities (abroad or not)
(Latest update: 26/08/2024) Volunteering (abroad or in our own town) can be done by anybody because, as I always say, there’s something to suit everybody’s wishes. Whatever is your passion, wherever your focus is, there’s always a chance to get … Continued
Volunteering and voluntourism: passion or business?
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.
Stories from Haiti
These pictures from Haiti show personal stories, moments and daily scenes that I chose to tell briefly because an image speaks more than many words
Volunteering VS cooperation: differences
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.
Stories from the Philippines
These pictures and stories are a collection of my experience during a volunteering trip to the Philippines
Stories from Tanzania
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.
What can you do on a volunteer work trip?
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.
Haiti is no country for old men
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