Eleanor - Sri Lanka 2018
Hi,
I’m Eleanor, from grade 11. I am extremely fortunate to be one of the few granted the funding from the James Rao Foundation. Thank you so much to the Rao family for enabling me to have this opportunity! I will be taking part in a two week medicine volunteering and work experience programme in Sri Lanka.
This project is organised by Projects Abroad, they organize a wide range of volunteer projects all over the world. I chose this organisation because they make a real difference in the places they organise projects and they were so friendly and helpful and quickly answered any questions or queries I had. Other applicants have also used projects abroad and have had good experiences and I am sure that mine will be just as exciting and fulfilling as theirs.
I will be volunteering in a Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Colombo is Sri Lanka’s biggest city and is situated on the coast. Sri Lanka is a place full of culture and beauty with many temples I will be able to visit and beautiful beaches to enjoy my free time. The locals are said to be very welcoming and I will have the chance to experience a totally new culture.
My journey will start at the beginning of the 2018 summer holidays, taking off to Colombo from Heathrow airport in London. Upon arrival I will meet my host family and settle into my home for the next two weeks. At the hospital I will be working in different wards and learning about health care in a less developed country. Sri Lanka is extremely short on doctors and often patients are three to a bed which you would never find here in France. I will be working in many wards including the labour room, encouraging mothers whose husbands have to wait outside as the labour room is too small. I will also take part in an outreach programme for two days, learning basic skills such as taking blood pressure as well as educating locals about diseases that are spreading and how best to prevent them, I think this will be the most rewarding work.
It is a true belief of mine that everybody should have access to basic health care. There are so many people suffering from curable diseases. I hope that in the future I will be able to return with more skills and make more of a difference.
It has always been a dream of mine to travel and I am so thankful to be given this opportunity.
Eleanor
I’m Eleanor, from grade 11. I am extremely fortunate to be one of the few granted the funding from the James Rao Foundation. Thank you so much to the Rao family for enabling me to have this opportunity! I will be taking part in a two week medicine volunteering and work experience programme in Sri Lanka.
This project is organised by Projects Abroad, they organize a wide range of volunteer projects all over the world. I chose this organisation because they make a real difference in the places they organise projects and they were so friendly and helpful and quickly answered any questions or queries I had. Other applicants have also used projects abroad and have had good experiences and I am sure that mine will be just as exciting and fulfilling as theirs.
I will be volunteering in a Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Colombo is Sri Lanka’s biggest city and is situated on the coast. Sri Lanka is a place full of culture and beauty with many temples I will be able to visit and beautiful beaches to enjoy my free time. The locals are said to be very welcoming and I will have the chance to experience a totally new culture.
My journey will start at the beginning of the 2018 summer holidays, taking off to Colombo from Heathrow airport in London. Upon arrival I will meet my host family and settle into my home for the next two weeks. At the hospital I will be working in different wards and learning about health care in a less developed country. Sri Lanka is extremely short on doctors and often patients are three to a bed which you would never find here in France. I will be working in many wards including the labour room, encouraging mothers whose husbands have to wait outside as the labour room is too small. I will also take part in an outreach programme for two days, learning basic skills such as taking blood pressure as well as educating locals about diseases that are spreading and how best to prevent them, I think this will be the most rewarding work.
It is a true belief of mine that everybody should have access to basic health care. There are so many people suffering from curable diseases. I hope that in the future I will be able to return with more skills and make more of a difference.
It has always been a dream of mine to travel and I am so thankful to be given this opportunity.
Eleanor