NSGA offers unique and challenging volunteer opportunities to people with different skill sets.
Read about our volunteers’ and members’ experiences living and working in The Gambia and Sierra Leone. Their stories tell of the real impact of working in a developing country. Their work has changed the lives of Gambians and Sierra Leoneans … and themselves.
Click the link below to take a look at a Photobook of volunteer stories from the past several years!
Reflections on Returning to The Gambia BY: Cathy Faulkner As I reflect back over my summer experience it is hard to imagine a more worthwhile opportunity. To have seen firsthand the NSGA in action has been incredibly reassuring good things … Read More
Letter from The Gambia by: Allison Reeves Hi everyone! It will be virtually impossible to describe my last 24 days here. In that short time span, it feels as if I’ve lived a lifetime. And my reality has been turned … Read More
Koidu feels a long, long way from Nova Scotia. But we’ve finally arrived in this woe-begotten diamond town to witness the work NSGA’s Sierra Leone program (NSSLP) is doing even in remote corners of the country. Koidu is the epicentre of the country’s diamond … Read More
Teaching in an open schoolroom during the Gambian rainy season, with deafening rain on the tin roof and scattered wildlife squawking is something else. While I was amazed daily by the noise, I was most amazed by our young Gambian students. Reproductive health was … Read More