When I decided to donate a well during my stay at the Journeys Within B&B earlier this month, I asked John if I could visit the site of my future well. He said he could do one better: I could spend a morning visiting new wells with the scholarship students who...
Author: Communications Manager
Brook with JWOC’s loan recipients
While visiting Cambodia earlier this month, I had the opportunity to meet some of JWOC’s loan recipients.Here are their stories:Kheng Lerb lives in a small, thatch-walled house with her husband and eight—that’s right, eight—children. She operates a makeshift general...
TravelAid – Final Days
It’s our last day working for JWOC, and the month seems to have gone by in no time. We’ve been massively busy this last week, trying to wrap up everything before we go. So for the micro credit project, we went over all the different documents we’d created, making sure...
TravelAid – Water Well Testing
We’re halfway through our third week, am I’m amazed at how quickly it has gone. Being part of the well testing and scouting has taken up most of our mornings. The work we’ve done has been really interesting – always varied, and I feel we’ve accomplished a lot. By now...
TravelAid – End of Week 3
Week 3 is already over. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday we are going to visit the temples of Angkor. After 20 days in Siem Reap we will at last discover its major attraction! Still, quite a few things happened in this very short week. Sunday afternoon, JWOC held its...
TravelAid – End of Week Two
Markus Wegelius and University Scholar Se in back with children from Dai Thmei Village, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Already the end of the second week! It is Sunday and we surprisingly were able to wake ourselves up bright and early to start another busy day of work at JWOC....
Ari – Business Training Volunteer
I had the pleasure to volunteer for the Village Microfinance Fund project for about 3 weeks. I worked closely with another volunteer and both were encouraged to discuss any changes that we thought were needed. We also got to interview villagers with the scholars.Early...
TravelAid – End of Week One
It is now the end of our first week volunteering and I have been extremely busy. Splitting my time between teaching ever eager English students and sifting through applications for future scholars, there has been little time to reflect. The others in our group have...
TravelAid 2007
By Michael Brodie – My First Day: 7/8/07After a day of introductory discussion, where we got to grips with the way that JWOC works, today we began our four weeks of volunteering. My name is Michael Brodie and I am part of a group of seven Oxford University students,...