I've spent the last three days in the hospital. I got sent to the emergency room at 6am in the morning after I've developed an extremely stomach pain which kept me up all night, however, once I arrived they wheeled me in straight away and put me on the drip then left me. I had no interpreter present nor my team leader (she arrived few moment later), I had my co ordinator and my youth project supervisor with me who is Filipinos and doesn't sign British sign langua...

We've almost reached to our halfway point of the programme which means it's time for MPR (mid phrase review) where everyone get together. Every each ICS team in different under developing countries must do a review to discuss about their programme. We was placed in San Carlos university, one of biggest university in Cebu, with UK and Philippines team leaders, UK and Filipino volunteers, youth programme coordinator, and a member of UK deafway staff. The day consis...

During our ICS-VSO programme we have to do 3 Action Citizen Day in any areas what we think is the most priority to have a brief presentation about it. They asked the UK and Filipino volunteers who wants to be part of the committee and organise it- I'm one of three who volunteered to do it. I was given a week and half to create this day, because of my work placement, i have decided to talk about the deaf people in education as i felt that they aren't getting all t...

On our teachers day we was treated like a princess! Of course I'm going to tell you why, on our arrival I could see there was students rushing about to get their preparation done in time for their performance, we was told to wait in our room for someone to come in and escort us. We waited for a bit until a student from 4th year came and collected us, we was paired with the opposite gender to escort us into the hall, before that we had MILLIONS of photos taken- ...

It has been almost a month since i got to Cebu, all i got to say is, it has been an massive eye opening for me! So many people here are living below the poverty line, i could see so many people living in the street even families, and they've set their " home" in cardboards with a ground fire to cook their food, wash themselves in the public, wash their clothes and just chilling. The beggars are also everywhere and they would just follow you constantly if they thi...