MONEY IS NOT A BAND-AID BY SUSAN SALEEBA
I don ’ t think anyone really dreams of building a school for 500 or an orphanage in a third world country ; they may think it would be nice , but that is as far as they go . So why oh why was volunteering and ‘ changing the world ’ a dream of mine ?
This is a question I constantly ask myself when the responsibility I feel presents sleepless nights , fear of failure , lack of confidence and self-doubt .
Almost 11 years ago – when my own two children , Adam and Sarah , grew into independent responsible young adults with dreams of their own – I felt that I had the time to actually live out my own dream . I began by volunteering with an international organisation ; luckily I was relatively stable financially and could afford the exorbitant outlay to pay for airfares , accommodation , donations , food , inoculations , anti-malarial tablets … the list went on and on . The promise from the organisation I went with was that a portion of the costs would end up
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