Nicola
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Nicola
Hello!
My name is Nicola, I'm 23 and I'm shortly about to embark upon a year-long voluntary project in Mexico. I am going to Mexico with Inter-Cultural Youth Exchange (www.icye.org.uk) who are a registered charity. Their aims are to promote cultural understanding and exchange, whilst enabling young people to volunteer in social projects around the world. In Mexico I will be working at an SOS Children’s Village in Tuxtla Gutierrez , Chiapas State. The Village provides education and therapy for children with special needs and many of the children are resident at the centre. My work will involve helping in the classroom, assisting with physiotherapy, as well as any other tasks they require of me!
I will be using this blog to share stories and photos of what I get upto here in Mexico. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported my decision to come to Mexico, and especially those who have helped me with my fundraising efforts! Special thanks goes to Hazel's Footprints Trust (www.hazelsfootprints.org) and the Edward Cadbury Trust for their generous donations.
So, I hope you enjoy, and please feel free to leave comments and (for those that know me) keep me up to date with the gossip back home!
Nicola x