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Each year in Peru during the long school holidays in January and February we run a teacher training programme for the local Peruvian English teachers. The scheme is very popular with the local teachers and we rely on the volunteers to keep running the course.

The course on April 16th is available to all UK volunteers aged from 17-23 joining Teaching and Care placements overseas. The course takes place at the British Safety Council offices in Hammersmith, London.

Monday night last week was a big night for Projects Abroad Romania volunteers as they held a drama charity event for the Vulcani Hospital, and presented the talent behind their very own drama programme Black Juice.

After the floods last week the Peru team along with volunteers has been working on the recovery work in the Sacred Valley.

Projects Abroad volunteers in Ghana are now working with the Future Leaders Underprivileged Children's Centre in Accra. This school now teaches more than 80 children, however, it started with just 5 children being taught in the shade of a mango tree.

Medical volunteers in Nepal were able to attend a gynaecology medical camp for a day on the 16th January. The camp was organised and funded by Projects Abroad in association with Dholahiti Community Health Services Centre.

When you were a child, did you dream of super machines, huge space ships and other worlds? With increasing access to computers you can access these worlds just by pressing an 'enter' key.

Happy New Year from all at Projects Abroad. One of the great things about Projects Abroad is seeing the contrasting ways that our destinations celebrate different events.