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Diary of an ICS volunteer: host families, hard work and hot chai

Vix Anderton, International Citizen Service team leader, 12 August 2015 - Asia, Development Debates, Economic Development, Girls & Women, International Citizen Service

...that brings together 18 to 25-year-olds from all backgrounds to fight poverty in overseas and UK communities. To find out how to become an ICS volunteer like Vix go to...

A Big Thank You to our International Citizen Service Volunteers on International Volunteer Day

Lynne Featherstone, Ministerial Champion for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Overseas, 5 December 2013 - International Citizen Service

Today is International Volunteer Day – an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the work of volunteers who give up their time to make a difference in communities around the world. This year, International Volunteer Day will acknowledge in particular the …

Baseline the Bard

Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, 22 May 2013 - Education, Tanzania

Tanzania's founding father Mwalimu (Swahili teacher) Julius Nyerere was certainly both erudite and multi-lingual; as he guided his country to independence in the 1960s he translated Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar into Swahili in his spare time. He …

Diary of an ICS volunteer: host families, hard work and hot chai

A Big Thank You to our International Citizen Service Volunteers on International Volunteer Day

Baseline the Bard

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