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The Lady Mechanic Initiative, Nigeria
The Lady Mechanic Initiative? It sounds like something out of a quirky novel. But it’s not a work of fiction: it’s changing the lives of disadvantaged women all over Nigeria. VSO volunteer Russell McKeown is drawing on 25 years’ experience in engineering and business to help the project succeed.
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We need Education Advisers and a Special Needs teacher for our Thai-Burma education programme, working with ethnic minority refugees and migrant children. Find out more here
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Young Christian teaches prisoners in Sierra Leone
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Flood situation in Mozambique 'under control'
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