Mariana Gledhill from Wellington, N.Z spent 7 months, in 2005, in Peru doing voluntary work. She shares her experiences.
My work is as wonderful as ever. I love the kids I work with and even though physically, I will have to leave in what seems to me so little time, mentally I will never be able to leave the hogar. The kids have left too much of an imprint on my lives. I had better tell you all about them as individuals so that you understand me better.

By Eva Lawrence, Just Focus Coordinator
Young people in Aotearoa and around the world are a diverse bunch of people doing a range of exciting, positive things. But the media in Aotearoa New Zealand, and globally, creates an image of young people that is uniform, unreal and unfair.

By Cameron Walker, Auckland
So your brand new, highly expensive, major brand jacket actually cost less than two bucks to make in a Thai sweatshop. How cool is that?! Not very. Leading sportswear companies continue to make huge profits from unethical sweatshop labour.

By Corrina Howland, age 14, Wellington
Fahrenheit 9/11 is Bush-bashing at its cinematographic best. The documentary provides an insight into Michael Moore’s many theorems about George Dubya and takes viewers step by step through the scandals and subsequent cover-ups made by the Bush government upon the issue of the Iraq War.

Mariana Gledhill from Wellington, N.Z spent 7 months, in 2005, in Peru doing voluntary work. She shares her experiences.