Nursery World - Giving your time - voluntary work abroad

A quiet read of Nursery World and one phone call changed 31-year-old Jane Greig's life forever. A few months later, in July 1999, she found herself leaving her job as a hospital play specialist in Tayside and boarding a plane to Albania. Her new challenge to help in an orphanage built and founded by the charity, Hopes and Homes for Children.

A quiet read of Nursery World and one phone call changed 31-year-old Jane Greig's life forever.
A few months later, in July 1999, she found herself leaving her job as a hospital play specialist
in Tayside and boarding a plane to Albania. Her new challenge to help in an orphanage built and founded by the charity, Hopes and Homes for Children.

I saw an advertisement for volunteers in Nursery World, thought I might like to do it and rang the charity's co-founder, Caroline Cook,' says Jane. She was so enthusiastic about it that by the end of the phone call, I was determined I would go. It's a decision I've never regretted.'

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