Tim Park from Wellington is volunteering in Tanzania with V.S.A. and shares his stories and photographs with us.

Goat Teste wine - standard rough rice white spirit which had been allowed to mature with a set of goat nads in it. This turns the spirit a bit yellow and imparts the goats virility to those who drink it. Watch out - I am now as horny as a goat.

Mariana Gledhill from Wellington, NZ, has recently returned from 7 months volunteering in Peru, she shares her experiences.

I am back, and I am well, confused. I keep telling people stuff in Spanish, including the people who cannot say anything except si… Anyway, I thought that maybe I should analyse my trip with a ‘top 5’ format.

By Cameron Walker

World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) claim to have the noble aims of helping third world nations to finance the building of infrastructure and to bridge balance of payments difficulties. However, many claim both institutions help ruin the economies of Third World nations through forced structural adjustment programmes.

Media Peace Awards Global Focus has been dominated for an award at the Media Peace Awards being held in Auckland on Wednesday the 9 November. Global Focus is a collaborative project between Tearaway Magazine and the Global Education Centre , and the articles written for it can be found here on the […]

Alex Dalzell, who is in his final year at Otago Medical School, Wellington, has recently returned from a six week placement at a hospital in Qui Nhon, Vietnam, Alex shares some of his e-mails home with us.

The Vietnamese don’t care how I am, what they really want to know before names etc. is how old I am. I have also been asked “how odd are you?” I decided not to tell them how odd I am because I need to stay here for another 3 weeks or so.

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

I have said goodbye to everything in Peru. I felt and still feel cut up about leaving my girls. Some of them think that no one loves them as I do. Fiorella will not confide in anyone but me. She thinks that I am the only person in the world she can trust. So many of the kids call me mum and when I left my work for the last time, some of the kids literally had to be pulled off me. It was horrible.

By Cameron Walker

Despite a well intentioned and highly publicized meeting, big business still finds the Green Party scary. By the way the media has portrayed this it seems like we are all supposed to be worried that the ‘anti-business Greens’ may well form part of the next government.

Tim Park from Wellington is volunteering in Tanzania with V.S.A. and shares his stories and photographs with us.

Alex Dalzell, who is in his final year at Otago Medical School, Wellington, has recently returned from a six week placement at a hospital in Qui Nhon, Vietnam, Alex shares some of his e-mails and experiences with local cuisine with us.