By Tyrone Bennett | Head of Alumni Services
Dear Supporter,
Recently, we have used funds donated by you to help some of the students from TyneMet College go on a group volunteering experience with their school. TyneMet has the highest success rates, for young people studying long courses, of any college across Tyneside in 2012/13. We are still in the process of deciding which project the students will visit and when - so stay tuned for future updates on this exciting project!
In other news, I thought I would share with you an excerpt from an interview that Brydie did after her placement in Nepal as part of our NSP for Australians.
How did the National Scholarship Program help you?
NSP gave me this opportunity to come to Nepal and I’ve been so grateful for all the help and support they’ve given me. I won a scholarship to volunteer with GVI f in December 2013 and since winning that they’ve always been so easy to talk to about any quires that I had. I felt so prepared that I wasn't anywhere as nervous as I thought I would be. I was put in touch with other people traveling to Nepal or that had also won the scholarship so I had multitudes of people to talk to at any time.
What was your proudest accomplishment when working for GVI?
One of the things I do at the Street Boys home is do one on one work with a boy called Ramesh. I’ve created an activities book for him to help him catch up at school. In the book we cover all types of things; fractions, spelling, odd things out, drawing, comprehension. All things that will help improve general school life as well as helping him get the best opportunities that he can. I’ve been working with him since September and have seen such an improvement already. One thing we're trying really hard at improving for Ramesh (and even some of the other boys) is to sound out words they don’t know rather than just reading the letters. They aren't taught phonetics at school so it's something we are slowly trying to implement to help them along.
Thank you for your continued support on this project.
All the best
GVI Charitable Trust
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