Send Alice to Volunteer in Sri Lanka

Alice Coker Start Date: Aug 17, 2015 - End Date: Sep 25, 2015
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by: Alice Coker Start Date: Aug 17, 2015 - End Date: Sep 25, 2015
SLV is a voluntary organisation which started in 2010. The brainchild of Lucy Nightingale, a psychology graduate from the University of Manchester and Yasintha Rathnayake, a youth worker in Sri Lanka. SLV runs projects to help the local community while simultaneously helping students and graduates to gain valuable experience in a totally different culture.

I’ll be loaning my skills to this organisation and am really looking forward to getting stuck in to a new culture. I’m fundraising, as I’ll be joining SLV in Sri Lanka for 10 weeks from October to December on the Graduate Mental Health placement.

I will be working with individuals suffering from mental health issues, running activities for patients using creative therapies to engage with them in multiple institutions. Alongside this I will be attending workshops run by Samutthana, the King’s College London resource centre for trauma, displacement and mental health. The main aim of Samutthana is to train and support organisations and individuals to respond to the psychosocial needs of trauma sufferers i.e. tsunami survivors and those who have experienced civil-conflict in Sri Lanka. 
 
As well as all of this I will be working with people with special needs and helping teach English to young children/adults on vocational courses. I will be working alongside other volunteers whilst staying with a Sri Lankan family in their home. 

I would really appriciate your help as any donation big or small would help go towards my placement fees and my living costs whilst out volunteering in Sri Lanka.

Thank you in advance for your generosity and support! 


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