Development Instructors all have big hearts and a willingness to do something about the most basic contradiction in today’s world: the extreme poverty in which far too many people live.

Follow Juan from Spain in Childrens town in Maputo where he is working with 800 children. His blog in English and Spanish.
http://www.juansevilla.es/noticias/

Since February until August 2010, I will be living with about 800 children working as a teacher. Children whose have lost their families because the war, diseases (AIDS, Malaria, TB), have been abandoned or their families cannot take care of them.

When you come to Gånsager as a DI you have a lot of questions. What are you going to do here? What will be your tasks? What kind of preparation for your project in Africa you can do in this place? A lot of questions to be answered.

Two or three times per year the school organizes a trip where students, teachers, DI and pedagogues are involved. These trips are really good way for students to learn about geography, cultures, languages and share the moments with others.

Sonja Schlacter was Development Instructor and now back to start a new team of Development Instructors. Here is her experience.

Angela from Germany is now the DI teacher in Nakkebølle, training new teams of Development Instructors - read her experience here

The sun, hot air, nice people, dusty roads and much more – one view of Africa. I am Branjo from Slovakia.
Now teacher for DI s in Juelsminde

Here you can read about my unforgettable time and experiences in Malawi, in an amazing but one of the poorest country in South-East Africa where I spent 6 months as a volunteer!
You can contact me for more information at africavolunteer@hotmail.com

I’m Vitor from Portugal (Faro) I’m 25 years old and I enrolled the DI program in the August Team.

Under the umbrella of “Action Week”

Ieva Ince lives and works in the Teacher Training College, Chilangoma, Malawi.

The rain is here. Strong and so releasing! Big, heavy drops hit the dry, hard red soil.

Why the decision with 61 years to involve myself in this program to come on this way to Africa?

If you are ready to take up the challenge to make the world for the better, this program might be for you...
Welcome to the Program!

Development instructor is our word for a volunteer

TCE – Total Control of the Epidemic
Only people can liberate themselves from AIDS - The epidemic.

The live style is completely different to Europe. It is very simple.

Hello my name is Leonard and I'm from Sweden. I’m a DI in Frederikshavn, Nordjylland in Denmark.

My dearest ones in Denmark, Portugal, Africa and in the rest of the world:

February team just started a week ago. Cicci and Susanna from Sweden, Maria and Emilian from Spain, Giuseppe from Italy, Aouicha from Germany, Doreen, Antoinette and Dave from England , they all became D.I.s...

Cornelia was a DI in Malawi from February 2006 till August 2006.

Imagine that you also have to work all day to even afford the food, and then take over an hour to make abasic dish, and it reminds you of how much we take for granted......

A very short introduction to Malawi, The country in Africa where the Development Instructors from Juelsminde do their development work at the Projects of DAPP Malawi.

Hi there! My name is Vincent Hinssen I’m from the Netherlands and I joined the Humana program to be a D.I. in November 2007.

The Agitation Weekend involved all the DI’s (Development Instructor’s) enrolled in the schools at; Juelsminde, Bogense, Bustrup, Nordjylland and Nakkebolle.

We welcome Sónia Veiga and Zsofia Fila to the D.I. program in Tvind. We are also enrolling for the November team 2008 in Tvind School Centre.

Welcome to Tvind. We are around 100 people living here. There are 2 schools for teenagers, 2 Carehomes, a teacher training college called DNS and Tvindkraft our windmill, the sport hall, the thatre hall, the Dining hall and lots of nature...

Greeting with pictures from Ieva. She is working with development of preschools in Malawi.

Hi there! My name is Salva, a 24 year old boy from Spain.

“Before we came down to this physical world, we each signed a contract in the endless committing to help a certain number of people. However, most of us forgot our promise and we avoid helping because it's uncomfortable. And yet, it's in those uncomfortable corners of our lives where the most love and light is brought out of hiding. Shine today. Be there for someone (especially when it's challenging).”

My name is Vaida. I am from Lithuania and I am 29 years old. I already spent almost two moths in Gansager and I can say that this is the most interesting and challenging experience in my life. But first I have to tell you how I got here.

My name is Eva. I am from Spain (Alicante) and I am 27 years old. Since I was a child, always one of my dreams was to go to Africa or to another developing country to help the people.

Hi Everyone!
My name is Balazs and I coming from Hungary. It's been 30 years past and I still haven't found my aspiration. I have travelled around the world and I have lived in a couple of countries in the last seven years.

I look forward to challenging myself, live an adventure and explore new ways of supporting people without just consuming their land but offering something beneficial.

„Laught is the shortes distance between two people”, remeber this, smile and see you all soon!

The volunteering in Africa is a very long story in my life. When I was a child, I often thought I will go to Africa and I will live there and help people.

I hope that this decision will be good and an unforgettable one in my life. And all the experiences make me grow into the open minded person I wish to be.

"It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service ... Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." Albert Einstein

I went to Dubai for about 7 months. There I saw the big difference between rich and poor in one city.Foreign workers from India, Pakistan and other Asian and Persian countries told me their stories, and I got a look in their life.

"...going to Africa is a very good chance to share and learn,from people that have a different vision of life and nature "

‘If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change’

I always believed that I could change the world, but I also know that I am probably not able to do it by myself. It always takes a tribe of people to make changes. I used to look for an opportunity to make a difference by becoming "an agent of change."

I am really interest at people and their culture in africa, but i also know naturally that there are a lot of problems and many people fight there every day for their life and a lot of them are ill and die or have no family anymore.

So here I am starting Development Instructor project and since I've made this decision I'm the happiest ladybird in the worlds meadow.

I was a volunteer in Ukraine for one year. Working there made me very happy, so I decided that I would like to do the same things in my life

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

- Miriam Beard

I spent 4 years living in Cape Town, South Africa while studying at university there.

I really loved my time there and was able to travel around some of Southern Africa, visiting Zimbabwe and Namibia.

I’m Felix from Spain, I’m 23 years old and I’ve enrolled in Juelsminde November 2008 team.

Grüässöch! My name is Flurina. I am 19 years old and from the German part of Switzerland

My name is Stu Phillips, 27 from the U.K.

Hi, my name is Alberto and I´m from Spain.

Dear all!!
My name is Valentina. I'm italian, from Rome and I'm 31 years old

This is me.
My name is Frida, I'm 21 years old, and born and raised in Göteborg/Gothenburg - Sweden

My name is Almudena and I am from Andalusia (Spain)

There is a lot of humans in the world who suffers every day, I look forward to try to make the world to a better place."

I would like to use my energy helping people who need a chance for a better life, to learn and discover new things. I'll be happy to do it, and at the same time, I can learn about myself and further develop as a human being.

Dear All,
I've been looking for my way and I have the feeling I found a good direction now.

I am Jan from Sweden. After trying for 25 years to change the entire world I have now , by the age of 57

All that is needed is just a bit of our time and a piece of our heart and you can easily make a person smile. Hey! And that’s good enough for me.