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CSV - anyone?!
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just wondering if any one else on thesite is a csv (community service volunteer) like me!! currently volunteering full time for 10 months, which is an experience!!
becki x
becki x
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They give you somewhere to live and pocket money each week and you work a full time job like rest of the staff. A quite cool experience but can be a bit dull at times!
It a year were im meant to decide what to do next, still no clue..... lol
I'm looking for something like this for the summer, although I don't want a care work role, but more of an advocacy role.
Could you please give me some more information? The idea of moving back to my home town for the summer kills me inside.
normally there is a min time of 4 months on a project, but think they do shorter ones for student's over the summer.
I worked at a school for kids and young people with cerebral palsy, and i had a fantastic time. Met up with a lot of other CSV volunteers in the area dn they all seemed to be having a good time with thei different projects too. CSV did everything they said they would - paid pocket money on time, there was always someone to talk to if there was any prblems, they organised social actities to allow you to meet other volunteers and they rang every now and again to see how we were getting on. So yeah, i'd recommend it to anyone.
I met a few of their fulltime volunteers and they lived in a neat little house with their bills paid and were really nice people, mostly from s.korea and i made good friends with a f/t vol. from austria who stayed with us in ireland over christmas.
I've been thinking about full time volunteering with CSV after i finish college