Lisa Faye now lives in Saskatoon after many years. She studied at Memorial University, Newfoundland. She first found out about CUSO on the web and met Marian White who is the PE Officer in PEI.

She arrived in Accra and then served in Ho.

The organiza...

I caught up with return volunteers Mick and Jackie McGarry during a recent trip to Kelowna, BC. They served in Malawi from 2001-2002. Mick, who is also a lawyer, taught English, while Jackie partnered with a local non-profit to develop community rehabi...

Dr. John Bishop and his wife Margaret Bishop served in Malawi in 2001-2002, and later went back for a shorter term in 2005. As one of the main doctors at the hospital where he was posted, Dr. Bishop worked in surgery, obstetrics, gynecology and in HIV-...

Keith Germaine and Yvonne Rousseau met while volunteering as public secondary school teachers in Ghana. They told me about how they went to Ghana feeling like they had a lot to give, but came back with an appreciation for family, culture and leading a ...

Wil and Irma Driediger were the last CUSO volunteers in India- they served in Gujarat from 1970-1972. In our chat they recounted working in a foreign language and serving a ambassadors for India in the West rather than for Canada in India. Wil and Irma...

Mike and Barb Angel served as teachers in Guyana from 1967-1969. I met them, along with their daughter Jeanette (who had been one and a half years old when they first went to Guyana), at an RV reunion in Vernon, BC. We talked about everything from food...

Victor has a wealth of information about CUSO-VSO having served 2 terms and worked with CUSO and volunteered on the BC Board. I really enjoyed speaking with him. Victor still works in community planning and sustainability and has worked with many commu...

I met Ted Bridgewater, an RV from Montreal/Calgary who had recently moved to BC at an RV potluck in Vernon. During our chat he recounted his experiences serving in San Fernando, Trinidad as an engineering teacher, and how his time there made him apprec...

Joyce Upex and her late husband Norman Wicks served as teachers in Papua New Guinea from 1978-1979. They spent the majority of their time in Alotau, where they worked with students to build a school from brush materials and initiated the Secondary Scho...

Andy Buhler was one of the early CUSO volunteers, serving as a lab technician and trainer in Nigeria from 1969-1971. His work experience, which involved training dispensary assistants and coordinating labs in first the North and then in Southern Nigeri...