Mandate – Share your journey

Leave for Change participants are asked to blog their experience during their placement to share their thoughts, learning, and journey with others. 

There are many aspects of the Leave for Change mandate and one of these is to share your journey, tell others, and create excitement around Leave for Change.

And so, as part of my Leave for Change mandate I’ll be chronicling my experiences throughout this journey on this blog. I’ll also be posting to Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/amyl4c/.

What is Leave for Change?

Leave for Change is a corporate volunteer program that offers employees a once in a lifetime adventure to give back by sharing their experience and expertise in a developing country through a 3-4 week overseas assignment. The purpose of the program is all about capacity-building.  Volunteers are challenged to train others in their field of expertise and act as advisors who transfer skills to local staff to help their host organization grow and reach their potential.

Leave for Change is a Uniterra program. Uniterra is a leading Canadian international development program that is jointly operated by CECI and WUSC. Uniterra also received funding for this program from the Government of Canada and the organizations who support their employees in participating (in my case the Canadian Medical Association). For additional details: https://uniterra.ca/en/partnership/leave-for-change