Volunteers
At the MicroLoan Foundation we are committed to using volunteers
wherever possible to help keep our costs down. We are run by a small
team on a full-time basis with a wide network of skilled and
enthusiastic volunteers. If you feel you have a particular skill that
could help us in the UK or Africa, please get in touch.
Spotlight
on a Volunteer
Jane
Stacey is a regional director for Barnardo’s, the children’s charity. She is currently in Malawi for four months
with her husband, Ken, undertaking voluntary work for the MicroLoan Foundation.
Jane is
interviewing 40-45 women and their children over 10 years of age to assess the
impact on their lives of their mothers
receiving loans from MicroLoan.
She will
be producing a report with a colleague from Barnardo’s, and hopes her work will
be of benefit to the organisation in
attracting future funding. Jane has also
started to make links with other children’s charities to broaden MicroLoan’s
partnerships in Malawi.
Both
Jane and Ken say they have been bowled over by the friendliness and hospitality
of the women they have visited and the amazing resilience they show in the face
of such hardship:
“We are
really enjoying the work and we have had so many interesting experiences – it
is more than we hoped for.”
The
photo shows Jane, an interpreter, and some of the women in a very poor rural
area fording a stream to visit one of the women’s houses. Just one of the many unexpected episodes that
is making their stay so memorable.
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