Want a deeper insight into what an ICS placement looks like? Read the amazing blogs written by our past and present volunteers. Enjoy the journey!

26 July 2011
El Salvador: Slideshow weeks 1 and 2
Lily Bland, an Empower volunteer in El Salvador, sent these photos to show the kinds of things...
El Salvador
Lily learns to roll a cigar from a 91 year old pro.
26 July 2011
El Salvador: Country of the Saviour
I decided to get started on the poetry whilst I'm here, as I'd fallen out of the habit after all...
El Salvador
Empower volunteers at a meeting in El Salvador
22 July 2011
El Salvador: invest in youth and build a better future
Read some extracts from Empower volunteer Katherine Wright's blog: 12 July: During the thunder...
El Salvador
Kids on the beach at El Tamarindo, El Salvador
22 July 2011
El Salvador: teaching young people to care for the environment
I just got back from El Salvador where I went to see an environmental project in El Tamarindo,...
El Salvador, Environment
Children in Nahuaterique with placards calling for better education
14 July 2011
Honduras/El Salvador: The town that doesn’t exist
Yesterday I visited some Progressio partners in the place known as Nahuaterique in Honduras. Set...
El Salvador, Honduras, Participation, Environment, Fragile states
ICS Empower volunteers arrive in El Salvador and are greeted by Progressio staff
12 July 2011
ICS Empower volunteers arrive in El Salvador, Peru and Malawi
Lily Bland, an ICS Empower volunteer aged 18, from Bristol, writes home saying “After a five AM...
El Salvador

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