{"id":4128,"date":"2017-05-16T17:26:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T16:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2024-11-06T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T09:16:13","slug":"hazel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2017\/hazel\/","title":{"rendered":"International Citizen Hazel goes to Cambodia with VSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/123-Hazel-ICS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4133\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/123-Hazel-ICS-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"123-Hazel ICS\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/123-Hazel-ICS-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/123-Hazel-ICS-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/123-Hazel-ICS.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Monday 8 May Hazel visited our Club to tell us about the adventure that she will be embarking upon in June.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She will be volunteering for three months in partnership with the charity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vsointernational.org\/\"><strong>Voluntary Services Overseas<\/strong> (VSO)<\/a>, working on development projects in Cambodia, \u00a0which focus on health, education and livelihoods.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hazel is a graduate and has since returned to the area, and volunteered to work for a charity. She applied for and was chosen as a participant on International Citizen Service.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.volunteerics.org\/\"> <b>International Citizen Service<\/b> (ICS) <\/a>is an opportunity for 18 to 25 year old volunteers, like Hazel, to help some of the poorest people in the world and learn valuable new skills at the same time. It\u2019s a programme that brings young people from different countries together to fight poverty. In many poorer countries young people make up the majority of the population. This programme is specifically designed to get young people from the UK and my host country together to tackle poverty and its causes. Young people, are the best placed to do this and change the world for the future. Hazel will have the opportunity to increase her understanding and experience of the world and develop important skills such as global and cultural awareness, team-working, leadership, communication and decision-making.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"x_divtagdefaultwrapper\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"x_divtagdefaultwrapper\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"x_gmail_extra\">\n<div class=\"x_gmail_quote\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"x_m_-1888162850842200354divtagdefaultwrapper\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"x_gmail_extra\">\n<div class=\"x_gmail_quote\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"x_m_-1888162850842200354m_-6285069612346343248divtagdefaultwrapper\" dir=\"ltr\">Hazel has been selected to go to Cambodia with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vsointernational.org\/\">VSO<\/a>, for three months starting in June. During this time, she will be living with a local family in the Banan District of Battambang Province and will be involved in a community work project along with a counterpart from Cambodia. VSO are a charity who bring inspiration, energy and vital practical skills to help achieve community goals: better healthcare, more valuable education and broader opportunities. In Banan District specifically, Hazel will be working to increase young people\u2019s awareness of career pathways, business development and education of diversified agriculture. This will lead to enhanced livelihood options for young people, which in turn helps mitigate youth migration and increases their potential for contribution to social and economic development in Cambodia.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The ICS Volunteers are asked to raise \u00a3800.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hazel came to the Club armed with a delicious home-baked chocolate cake to aid her fundraising efforts. The <strong>Club donated \u00a325<\/strong>\u00a0(see pic above of President Rita presenting Hazel with the cheque) and individual Members bought pieces of cake and made <strong>donations of \u00a359.44<\/strong> on the night (see 2nd pic) \u2013 making a fantastic <strong>grand total of \u00a384.44<\/strong>\u00a0to support VSO&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>Hazel sent an email as soon as she got home from the meeting: &#8220;<em>I just want to say a massive thank you to all the St Albans Soroptimist&#8217;s members at your meeting this evening! Everyone was so generous with their donations for cakes, and had so many lovely encouragements for my volunteering project in Cambodia&#8230;<\/em><em>I&#8217;m very grateful! \u00a0<\/em><em>Thank you for having me speak at your meeting this evening, and thank you for everyone&#8217;s interest in VSO&#8217;s volunteering work.\u00a0<\/em><em>I hope to speak with you all at a meeting again when I return!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We loved meeting Hazel (and her Mum) and wish her every good wish with her adventure and for her future career. Hazel embodies the Soroptimist strap-line \u201cwomen inspiring action transforming lives\u201d &#8211; we will be sure to hold her to her commitment to come back and tell us all about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 8 May Hazel visited our Club to tell us about the adventure that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[159,14,30,57,19,12,60,11,56,13],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-projects","tag-cambodia","tag-club","tag-fundraiser","tag-ics","tag-international","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-vso","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>International Citizen Hazel goes to Cambodia with VSO | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : International Citizen Hazel goes to Cambodia with VSO : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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