My time at Help the Kids will come to an end this week. I will be leaving for a two-week trip to Haiti, where I will be doing some research for my thesis, volunteering for a grassroots organisation, and representing the Andrew Grene Foundation. I hope to have some pictures and some account of the trip to post while I am there.
At the end of my trip, I will be going back to Ireland, and locking myself in a room for two weeks of frantic thesis finishing. After which I will be heading off to Cambodia to begin a new adventure with UNHCR in Phnom Penh, working on refugee education.
As seems to happen so often, the frantic preparations for the next chapter supercede the ending of the one I'm currently in. My feelings about my trip to Haiti and the excitement/anxiety/confusion that I feel have left me very little time to evaluate my time with Help the Kids. I do feel that it has been an amazing opportunity, and that I have learned a lot. It is an amazing organisation, and I one I would dearly love to work for, though not in the capacity that I'm now in. I have learned a lot about communications, and how this kind of organisation works from its central office, and it has made me more than ever convinced that I want to be in the field, working directly with programmes.
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