Caboose

I spent the past week on a VSO training course at Harborne Hall in Birmingham.

Back in the summer I attended the Preparing for Change and Volunteers and Development courses. This time it was Skills for Working in Development (or SKWID), 4 days of learning about and practising facilitiation skills, conflict management and similar things.

Like the previous courses, it was quite good fun, although pretty tiring. Most days ran from 9am to about 8pm with lots of activities which left no opportunities for snoozing at the back of the room. What really makes these courses are the other people on them, another really good bunch on SKWID, mostly heading out to Malawi.

It turns out that the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria has a website.

Looks like you can’t listen on line quite yet.

It looks like I’ll be heading off to Nigeria on the 13th of February. For two years.

It’s a VSO placement with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, as a technical coordinator.

I applied back in June and was accepted by VSO not long afterwards but it has taken a while to find a placement. Now I’ve handed in my notice at work (finishing on the 23rd of December) and I can ramp up the organisation.

Of course, this isn’t the first time I’ve been working overseas for a while, I’ve been in my current job for almost four years now so it seemed like time for a change.