Global wealth inequality – What you never knew you never knew

From the excellent Africa at LSE blog.

Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

Interesting, persuasive and passionate talk made by Dan Pallotta about how society currently views charities and how that needs to change. Flagged up by Ben Sutcliffe.

Six must see sights in Ghana

“Akwaaba! Wezo! Amaraba!” are all greetings you will hear when travelling in Ghana (they all mean “welcome” if you are not fluent in Ghana’s 75 languages). Ghana isn’t normally near the top of the list of places to visit as a tourist but as the Brandt Travel Guide states, “As travel destinations go, Ghana is […]

A rant about overseas volunteering

For those of you who know me you might be a bit surprised to see the title of this blog. Through my work with KickStart Ghana and other roles I am normally telling everyone how fantastic volunteering is and why they should get involved. I also espouse the benefits of overseas volunteering and tell people […]

Y The Fright Not?!? The Youth Funding Network

I discovered The Funding Network at an event celebrating Nelson Mandela Day. They are an organisation that enables individuals to join together to fund social change projects. It turned out that they also have an off-shoot, The Youth Funding Network. This sounded like something that I might want to be a part of and decided […]

Response to voluntourism article

Further to a recent article in The Beaver (the London School of Economics student newspaper), week of 9th October, page 23, looking at the pros and cons of voluntourism I sent the editors the following letter. Re: Voluntourism in Senegal It was great to read about Felicity’s recent volunteering experiences in Senegal and the benefits she felt […]

New to volunteering? Five ways to get the most out of it

If you’re new to volunteering you might be thinking about how to get the most out of it. Check out this blog entry on vinspired.com for some handy hints. This post was originally written by me for the London School of Economics, who have full copyright. See the original post.