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How you'll share experiences and see results

1. We’ll send you an email whenever your volunteer updates their page.
2. Your volunteer’s blog will offer you a real insight into their work and the lives of the local people in the country where they are working.
3. Regular photo updates mean you’ll see through a volunteer’s eyes the work you’re helping to make possible.
4. If you wish, you can post comments or messages of support.

Example blog

19 February, 2009 - 13:17

Dr Paul Williams

Medical Doctor

Uganda

Latest update...

This morning I spent several hours doing ward rounds on all of the children and the adults, managed a complicated delivery, oversaw an HIV & AIDS clinic and supervised three medical students. In between, the following things drew me away.

I was told there was no O negative blood for a young man with a massive spleen who needs a transfusion, and our laboratory attendant said that we could not get any. I organised sending someone off on the bus to Mbarara 5 hours away to get some today.

A fuse blew on the x-ray machine, and we have a visiting radiologist and radiographer here to train some of our staff. A team is leaving at 7am this morning to travel to the Tea Factory in Butagota to try to get another fuse or to fashion something from there so that we can run the service today.

Crops were burnt in a field adjoining the Hospital and the fire got out of control... (sign-up to read more).