This second gallery of photos from my time on Bohol is of a ‘Kids Day that All Hands Volunteers organised. This was what we in the UK would call a school fete or fair. It was in a nearby village that had been badly affected by the earthquake, evident by people still leaving in ShelterbBoxes which […]
Bohol is a smallish island in the southern area of the Visayas region of the Philippines. I was there during February 2014 to volunteer with a charity, All Hands Volunteers. The local communities suffered a lot of damage to buildings during an earthquake in October 2013. All Hands were assisting by providing volunteer labour to […]
I thought it would be a good idea to collate all the videos I took whilst volunteering in the Philippines in to one post so you can view them all together. Because I had very slow internet and wanted to upload them whilst I was there they are all low resolution videos and all short, […]
I’ve wanted to write a post to summarise my thoughts, since I finished the volunteering. Every time I think to do it I get slightly overwhelmed by the number of memories that come rushing into my head. When I left the island by ferry on my own; as it pulled away from the dock and […]
I often think of situations from a different angle once they aren’t new anymore. It can be the simplest thing, like the weather changing, that creates a new perspective. Or maybe It’s just settling in to a routine that allows me more brain power to consider how I feel about the environment I’m in. As […]
I knew it had been raining a lot here in Bohol but I wasn’t prepared for the storm that came through the first night. We were offered space inside to sleep due to the concern of camping with the expected wind speeds of 100km/h. I don’t know if the wind was at that speed but […]
Getting Hands On. I’ve never really done any volunteering before, not sure bob-a-job counts (born in the seventies, grew up in the eighties…). I’ve looked for opportunities in the last few years, didn’t find anything that matched up to what I wanted to do and VSO turned me down . Then a friend of mine, Shano (he’s Australian, […]