180: these streets

180

What does 180 mean? Quite simply, I've taken 6 months, 180 days, away from my career to travel and explore.

When it comes to travelling, just like with most experiences in life, one is often faced with a choice of depth vs. breadth. I suppose I have learned after many years of doing my fair share of roaming the globe that I prefer experiences with depth. And for me, one of the best ways to peel back the layers and really learn and experience a place has been to stay awhile and work alongside its people.

I've been fortunate to stumble across AfID http://www.afid.org.uk/, an organisation that partners with NGOs in the developing world and places them with accounting professionals like me seeking volunteering assignments. I'm starting in Cambodia for the first month, and seeing where it takes me from there - and looking forward to the journey.

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Attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn

180

Thursday, 5 May 2011

these streets

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