Posts Tagged ‘community’
Michelle is currently in the Solomon Islands with new volunteers but we are so very sorry to say that we never posted our last volunteers’ account of their experience in Fote. We are so sorry Max and Sarah! We hope you forgive us Amidst all the moving, traveling, getting married (for Rhoda!) and setting up in U.S., your wonderful story…
When approached by my brother, John, with the idea of doing some volunteer work in the Solomon Islands, my first question was, where’s the Solomon Islands? Apart from hearing the name once or twice in my life I didn’t know where it was and knew even less about what goes on there. I soon learnt a bit about the country…
A tropical holiday to the Solomon Islands turned into something of a vocation for 25-year-old Alexandria resident Michelle Roland. She and her friend Mirjam Verkleij travelled to the small island of Malaita, where they planned to help out for a few days at the Fote village school. “We thought we’d be going to a school of about 60 children, but…
