Trade Aid offers a unique opportunity because as volunteers we don't head back to our camp at the end of each day, we both work and live in the community, and so become part of it...
“When I left Tanzania, after my year there, I kept in touch with many friends and staff in Mikindani and have been back every year since.”
Although the role of volunteers has changed with time the overall experience has remained much the same.
For me, the unusual experience of living in this poverty-stricken but beautiful part of the World with some of the most welcoming and friendly people I have ever met has destroyed the myth of Africa as ‘the heart of darkness' and changed me profoundly as a person.
In addition to the memories I have, the volunteer experience has opened my eyes and given me new skills, confidence and a perspective that I would otherwise have missed.
Written by Len Coleman (Volunteer)
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