2009 Project & News - 2009 Project & Events

TracyC, a new volunteer to TEECH this year has made a massive step into the charity world by volunteering with TEECH and another gap-year organisation called Frontier.

TimesOnline reported on Tracy and some other volunteers - below is an abstract from their website.TracyC,32, from Ipswich, took redundancy from her admin-and-finance job at a university after her boss announced her department was going to move to London. It was a good time for a change, she says; she had split up with her partner and was re-evaluating her life. It didn’t take long for her to decide it was time for a break. Through a gap-year organisation called Frontier, she is now off to Tanzania to learn wildlife conservation. Along the way she will gain a BTec diploma in tropical-habitat conservation, and she hopes the skills she acquires might lead to a different sort of job when she comes home.

“There was nothing else I really wanted to do. I’d have just been getting a job for the sake of not being broke,” she says. “It does make me nervous, to think I’ll have no job to come back to, but I’m hoping the situation might have recovered by then. I’ve done a desk job since I was 18 and I’ve always wanted to do something different. I’m looking forward to the challenge. And no job is secure now, is it?” she says cheerfully. “I think it would be silly not to do it. I don’t want to look back and think, ‘That was the perfect opportunity.’ I’m doing it now while I have the chance.