Group Travel to Tunisia

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:01:57 +0000

EIL UK are developing an Arts and Crafts Programme in Tunisia in and around Carthage.

There will be opportunity to learn about traditional Andalucia-style ceramics and Arabic calligraphy in a traditional workshop situated in the heart of the Tunis medina.

Participants will learn some modern standard Arabic and take part in voluntary work.

This programme will last for 2 weeks and will take place in August 2010.

There are a maximum of 20 places available.

For more information about this exciting programme contact EIL.

Caroline Enright's account of her time at the Manav Sadhna Centre in Ahnedabad

Piers Meynell — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:54:12 +0000

Caroline Enright, a graduate in International Studies, spent 7 weeks volunteering with the Manav Sadhna Centre in Ahnedabad. This is an account of her time there:

The Manav Sadhna centre is fantastic and they do phenomenal work with women and children in the areas of education, empowerment, health, craft. I wrote a proposal for funding for the building of a new workshop for the women's craft part of the NGO which will hopefully be accepted soon...I got to use the qualifications I learned through my degree and it was good having my own projects to work on. I am also selling Manav Sadhna products through Amnesty in Ireland, they're really happy about this in the NGO as it means they can include more kids and women in their programes through greater demand for products... I started to feel a bit remote from the people in the slum as I was working on the computer a lot, so I asked a Manav Sadhna worker to come with me to the slum and get people together in their families. I took photos of each family and developed them and put them into frames. I gave them back to the families who were so happy... They have no photos of themselves, their families or kids growing up so they really appreciated it...

I've learned so much about development, about life in the slum and about constructive ways to help people, rather than just through handouts. Getting to work with people in the slum was incredible - they're such admirable, generous people who always made me feel welcome. They also showed themselves not to be victims, even in their terrible poverty, but people who are more than capable of bringing themselves out of poverty, once they are given the right tools and a fair chance. Being in India taught me more than I could ever teach or give the people there.

Caroline Enright

Travel Abroad

Volunteer Abroad

India

children

education

health

community development

Ahnedabad

Manav Sadhna Centre

arts and crafts

women

empowerment

Brona playing the guitar

Piers Meynell — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:43:16 +0000

Brona Higgins (on the right), a student from Co. Monaghan, Ireland, and a fellow volunteer singing and playing the guitair to children at a Nepalse orphanage.

children

orphanage

guitar

arts and crafts

EIL UK - arts and crafts

Group Travel to Tunisia

Caroline Enright's account of her time at the Manav Sadhna Centre in Ahnedabad

Brona playing the guitar