People volunteer for all kinds of reasons…. be they personal or universal. Regardless of age or background – skills sharing is open to everyone. The qualities that each person brings with them are unique and everybody’s approach is different.
Discover what motivated these volunteers and how they felt about their experience.
Living and working at Titjikala was a precious and enriching experience. I feel lucky to have made many good friends there. I learnt so much from the women and kids especially when we went out bush. I loved learning about language and culture, digging for witchetty grubs, tracking and hunting, learning about the land and dreaming stories. Read more...
“Ralph was forced to retire from his practice because of major illness and surgery, after which he felt he could not return to full time medicine. Missing it very much he started to do non-medical voluntary work in the community. I saw an advertisement in the paper about volunteering with ICV and we both enrolled. As time went on we put it out of our minds, until we suddenly received a call about a project . Read more...
“I decided to volunteer because of my desire to learn and understand Australian Indigenous cultures, and peoples. I hoped to use the skills I'd been privileged to learn at school and university, and transfer them onto those unable to have such opportunity. The philosophy of ICV, that one transfers skills, enabling communities to be in control of their own projects also attracted me to ICV, before other volunteer organisations”. Read More...
“I felt extremely fortunate to have the resources to retire while I still had a few active brain cells and a desire to do some form of voluntary work. I suppose that this reflects some middle class guilt but the ICV advertisement in the Australian couldn’t have come at a better time for me. There was really no good excuse for not becoming involved.” Read more...
