American University holds volunteering week
03/03/2010
Kansas University is currently staging a Peace Corps week to attract prospective volunteers to help secure livelihoods within countries in need of aid.
During the proceedings, former volunteers will be speaking about their experiences, reports Lawrence Journal-World.
One such ex-participant is Elizabeth Durkin, who spent 27 months helping out in the village of Moron in northern Mongolia, where she taught health education to children in schools and hospitals.
Ms Durkin said the rewards of doing something outside of most people's comfort zones were made all the better because of that risk.
"Anytime you choose to do anything you're going to have to give up something … you never know what wonderful things will happen if you take that chance," she explained.
Last month, a British photographer set up an event to source 1,000 books to send to Mongolian schoolchildren as part of the Bookbridge project - a wider effort to accrue 45,000 reading materials to be distributed across the country.
By John Curtis
