Team development with VSO

VSO is very keen on getting volunteers to support each other, and to this end it organises regular workshops for us to share ideas and experiences. For me, it is great to be able to meet up with friends, talk English and spend a bit of time in Phnom Penh with its Western luxuries and air con! There are now more than 70 VSO volunteers in Cambodia, all working for one of three sector programmes: livelihoods, health or education. I am part of the livelihoods sector programme, which is divided into teams working for fisheries, forestry and the environment. At one livelihoods workshop, the fisheries and forestry teams were given the task of building as high a structure as possible with drinking straws. Here's a photo of the results: Fisheries 1, Forestry 0. Hoorah!