Volunteer stories
Did you know that UNA Exchange made a cookbook? 2019/2020 volunteers Helene and Loeiza got their hands on the second edition, and guess what… They are going to try as many recipes as they can!
A few days ago, BGCWales ESC volunteer Béatrice Piot flew back to Germany. Her housemates, UNA Exchange volunteers Helene and Loeiza, interviewed her before she left.
Go read and watch her brilliant interview to learn more about her experience as an 18-year-old volunteering and living abroad for the first time!
Interview with Christian Jones, an experienced camp leader with UNA, conducted by UNA Exchange 2019/2020 volunteers Helene Chaland and Loeiza Stucker.
Loeiza and Helene are long-term volunteers at the UNA Exchange office located at the Temple of Peace, Cardiff. They often help other charities also based in the Temple of Peace, such as Hub Cymru Africa and Fair Trade Wales. Discover what they do when they volunteer for these charities!
It is with a heart full of memories that UNA Exchange’s long-term volunteer Mercè has left Stackpole, in West Wales. Read her moving essay on her nine months spent away from her native country, Spain.
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Interview with WCIA trustee Chrishan Kamalan conducted by UNA Exchange 2019/2020 volunteers Helene Chaland and Loeiza Stucker on January 31st 2020.
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September 2018, I went to Moldova on a European Voluntary Service out of curiosity. I went somewhere to which I would never have ventured, I worked in an international organization (glimpsing some of the realities of foreign aid) and I familiarised myself with a culture I wouldn’t have known of or grown fond of.
Hello ! We are Helene and Loeiza, French volunteers at UNA Exchange for this year 2019/2020 thanks to the European Solidarity Corps scheme. On Wednesday 6th November we attended the annual Peace Schools Conference organized by the WCIA -the Welsh Centre for International Affairs.
Read the truly inspirational story of our former volunteer Calum, who participated in our supportive volunteering programme “Step by Step” a few years ago.
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Interview with Robert Davies, founder of UNA Exchange, conducted on Friday 18th October 2019 at the Temple of Peace and Health by Hélène Chaland (volunteer at UNA Exchange for the year 2019/2020) using the Proust Questionnaire.