Volunteering in Peru is the best thing I’ve ever done without a doubt. The magic of the mountains, the airlessness of altitude, the wonder of being somewhere far and fresh and free; when working in a school for disabled children in Peru, I was so well slept and serene that I can’t ever imagine... [more]

Would you let someone you’d never met bathe your eight-year-old? Would you leave your disabled child in the hands of a foreigner? In Peru I was totally and implicitly trusted and needed. Not to say that in Australia I wasn’t. I’m pretty sure they that deep down they thought the kids would come home ... [more]