SLV Mental Health Placement in Sri Lanka!

Zoe Brown Start Date: Sep 28, 2017 - End Date: Jun 27, 2018
  • TEFL/Teach Abroad
  • Volunteer Trip
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Sri Lanka

My Travel Story

by: Zoe Brown Start Date: Sep 28, 2017 - End Date: Jun 27, 2018
  • TEFL/Teach Abroad
  • Volunteer Trip
  • Educational/Research Trip
In August 2018, I will be embarking on a 5 week Psychology Mental Health placement in Sri Lanka with SLV. SLV is a voluntary organisation who run projects to help local communities around the world while simultaneously helping students, like me, gain all-important experience and develop essential skills in the clinical field of psychology.

This incredible opportunity to volunteer with SLV means I will be able to help individuals with mental health problems as well as those suffering trauma, for example tsunami survivers and those who experienced the civil-conflict in Sri Lanka. I will be working with other volunteers running activities for patients using sensory, music and creative therapies to engage with patients on a variety of wards in multiple institutions.

In addition to these projects, I will be working with individuals with special needs and teaching English to children and young people on vocational courses.

During my stay I will be living with other volunteers in a homestay provided by a Sri Lankan family and on weekends I will have the opportunity to explore the island with the other volunteers.

I would like to say a massive thank you in advance to anyone who donates, any donation big or small is greatly appreciated! I am so excited and grateful to have been given this opportunity and it is definitely a worthwhile cause for those in Sri Lanka as well as immensly helping me in my future within psychology.
  • Sri Lanka