Judith Tethong served as a Youth Club Council in Jamaica when the country gained its independence in 1962. She had revolunteered in India for four years and went onto working with Tibetan peoples focusing on education. She was very effective in trai...

Having been an intercultural trainer for youth at the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society, Anna Du Vent brought her work experience to Kingston, Jamaica while working as a volunteer in 2009-2010. She served as a Youth Program Advisor at the Y...

Gary Wickett and his wife Judy were very proud to have their first baby born at Manipal General Hospital, India during their volunteering stint. During the RV gathering in Victoria, he shared his funny vegetarian egg experience in India.

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Tony Pargeter served as History and English teacher at the Mwinilunga Secondary School, Zambia from 1970-1972. As a volunteer, he is grateful to fellow volunteers who hosted most of his travels.

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Bette Shippam had served as a Community Development Officer in Vanuatu from 1986 to 1988. She taught early educators on the pedagogy of teaching children.

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Jean Maloney had served as an English teacher and Business Advisor in Papua New Guinea in 1981. Likewise, she had served as a Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor at the VSO Ethiopia in Addis Ababa for six weeks from February-March, 2011. She helped i...

Umeeda Switlo is the current Public Engagement Officer at CUSO-VSO West in Vancouver. She left Uganda at age 15. Together with her family, she is so grateful to a CUSO-VSO volunteer who helped them start a new life in Canada. She has travelled to Kenya...

Kenneth McKay was one of the first CUSO volunteers who had served overseas. He was a teacher in Ghana in 1962 and Monitoring and Evaluation advisor in 2011 in Ghana. Kenneth talks about giving an dthe cahnges in Ghana. Thanks Ken for your service!

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This podcast was recorded during CUSO-VSO's 50th Anniversary Kick-off celebrations in Victoria, B.C. CUSO-VSO is proud to honor 15,000 volunteers and 35 million service hours in over 40 countries. The views expressed in these podcasts do not necessa...

Katherine Nichol, as an Organization Development Advisor, helped in formulating a gender plan for VSO Ghana. She had also worked with the Ghana Evaluation and Monitoring Forum, a partner organization of VSO Ghana.

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