International development charity VSO is calling for secondary school teachers to consider volunteering to help improve the quality of education in developing countries, including Ethiopia, Tanzania and Ghana.
Volunteers will be working with colleagues in these countries to improve education standards for poor and disadvantaged children by developing the language skills of teachers and delivering training programmes.
SecEd asked two volunteers to discuss their experiences. Anthony Lovat, 31, is a science teacher from Croydon who undertook a two-year placement in Ghana, while Susan Smith, 60, from Warwickshire, took on a year-long placement in Ethiopia.
Just over a year has passed since I finished my two-year placement working as a teacher support officer in the small town of Bolgatanga in North East Ghana. I applied, thinking I would simply be a science teacher, but I soon realised my role as a VSO volunteer was actually to build a district of effective science teachers.
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