Thankyou to everyone who has donated money to VSO, I have reached my £1500 goal !!!! WOOOP! This money goes to VSO to help them continue to send people like me overseas to help in developing countries. I thought it would be difficult to raise such a large amount, but thanks to the generosity of friends and family (and selling most of my worldly goods at carboot sales) it was actually quite easy!!!!
Just because I've reached the £1500 mark, does not mean I have to stop there! You can still donate to VSO through my just giving site: http://www.justgiving.com/jamesdaviesVSO and this will help VSO even more!!
Also, check out the VSO website for more information on their work. http://www.vso.org.uk/
Many Many thanks to you all :)
Not long to go now..............
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
3 weeks.......
3 weeks to go!
The lovely helpful people at Anachem UK LTD (www.anachem.co.uk) have very kindly donated some Pipettes for me to take with me. These will be very useful for my work and will replace the ageing pipettes that are currently in use at the hospital.
I've also been requested by the hospital to take a spectrophotometer with me- not sure I can fit that in my suitcase though!
I'm still trying to sell my car! (PLEASE somebody buy it!)
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201223474909916/sort/default/usedcars/model/mondeo/make/ford/radius/1/postcode/bh124be/page/1/quicksearch/true?logcode=p
My Swahili is coming along (albeit very slowly).. but I still don't know much about football. I did sit through the Ireland-Croatia match the other day... but I completely missed the England match last night (in fact I didn't even know it was on!!)... so still a long way to go before I can have a conversation about Football in Swahili. !
My flight details should be through soon, and then I can start packing/panicking.
The lovely helpful people at Anachem UK LTD (www.anachem.co.uk) have very kindly donated some Pipettes for me to take with me. These will be very useful for my work and will replace the ageing pipettes that are currently in use at the hospital.
I've also been requested by the hospital to take a spectrophotometer with me- not sure I can fit that in my suitcase though!
I'm still trying to sell my car! (PLEASE somebody buy it!)
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201223474909916/sort/default/usedcars/model/mondeo/make/ford/radius/1/postcode/bh124be/page/1/quicksearch/true?logcode=p
My Swahili is coming along (albeit very slowly).. but I still don't know much about football. I did sit through the Ireland-Croatia match the other day... but I completely missed the England match last night (in fact I didn't even know it was on!!)... so still a long way to go before I can have a conversation about Football in Swahili. !
My flight details should be through soon, and then I can start packing/panicking.
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
4 weeks to go
4 weeks to go!!!
yep, just 4 weeks until I move to Tanzania for two years! It's becoming a lot more real now. I've got my car on the market for sale (if anyone wants a lovely mondeo then get in touch!) and have started to pack my stuff into boxes. I've sold most of it to raise money for VSO, and thanks to everyone's generousity I have raised £1200 so far of my total of £1500.
I've just spent the last 5 days at my final VSO training... it has been very useful in prompting me to think about the challenges I may face in my placement overseas. However, although it has answered a few of my questions it has raised about a million more! I'm still excited about going, but am naturally a bit apprehensive. I should be getting my flight details through soon, so it will be a lot more real then!
If you want to see the hospital I am going to then look at http://www.nyangaohospital.com/
yep, just 4 weeks until I move to Tanzania for two years! It's becoming a lot more real now. I've got my car on the market for sale (if anyone wants a lovely mondeo then get in touch!) and have started to pack my stuff into boxes. I've sold most of it to raise money for VSO, and thanks to everyone's generousity I have raised £1200 so far of my total of £1500.
I've just spent the last 5 days at my final VSO training... it has been very useful in prompting me to think about the challenges I may face in my placement overseas. However, although it has answered a few of my questions it has raised about a million more! I'm still excited about going, but am naturally a bit apprehensive. I should be getting my flight details through soon, so it will be a lot more real then!
If you want to see the hospital I am going to then look at http://www.nyangaohospital.com/
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Welcome to my Blog
If you've got here then you probably know that I'm going to Tanzania for 2 years, doing voluntary work through VSO. I will be working in a hospital laboratory in the Lindi region of Tanzania.
Hopefully I'll be able to keep this updated throughout my time in Tanzania, and maybe even get some photos on here!
I'm still trying to raise money for VSO so they can continue their work sending skilled professionals overseas to help combat poverty in the world's poorest countries. You can donate at:
www.justgiving.com/jamesdaviesVSO
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