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!

Picture of hands making pine-needle crafts
8 August 2013
Nicaragua: Pine needles and women’s businesses
One of the Progressio and partner organizations objectives is encouraging traditional indigenous...
Nicaragua, Latest volunteer
Volunteers working on a vegetable garden in Nicaragua
8 August 2013
Nicaragua: Sowing the Seeds for Future Generations
The word ‘sustainability’ seems to be in vogue at the moment.  Not just in the UK but all over the...
Nicaragua, Latest volunteer
Volunteer in Binga
24 July 2013
Zimbabwe: ‘We are one, there is no more us and them, we are free'
Arriving in Binga has been so different to what I felt the media has made Africa out to be. In...
Latest volunteer, ICS Zimbabwe
Volunteers working on reforestation in Nicaragua
23 July 2013
Nicaragua: Blood, Sweat and Plantas
  OUR first official working week began, as our team (from here on out known as Los Fuegos) started...
Nicaragua, Latest volunteer
ICS volunteers working on reforestation in Nicaragua
23 July 2013
Nicaragua: Reforestation in Action
Jack writes: It’s been a long first week of volunteering here in Nicaragua.  However, despite the...
Nicaragua, Latest volunteer
The group of volunteers on arrival in El Salvador
18 July 2013
El Salvador: The Start of the Journey
Empowerment. The new buzzword on every development worker’s lips. A concept embodying the biblical...
El Salvador, Latest volunteer

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