My passion for volunteering has influenced my team at work who were keen to see what they could do to help at home or abroad. However, some questioned their skills for such tasks – they aren’t engineers who can help design or build a school, they aren’t language or mathematics teachers. What they are is a bunch of people who are mad about sports, about playing as a team and helping others to improve.
I still go back to that same school in Kenya on a regular basis. Swimming is now part of the curriculum and the river is no longer such a threat.
The kids there are more confident and comfortable about leveraging their sports and academic learnings in their daily lives. They support and encourage each other to take on new challenges, try new things and follow the lead of the volunteers.
We’re not all teachers, architects and engineers but once you have a passion to share you’ll be able to make a difference in the world of volunteering.
Braga Skate 