'Worthwhile and meaningful' Vietnam volunteering weeks

A former student of Strode College, Street, has spoken of hissummer volunteering in a Vietnamese orphanage.

Philip Blazey, who lives in Baltonsborough, and is a student atthe University of Manchester, spent six weeks volunteering in HueCity, as part of a project coordinated by the University's RAGSociety and the Vietnamese-based charity Hue Help.

"We had two days in Saigon, before embarking on a 28-hour busjourney up the coast to Hue, my home for six weeks," he said.

"Upon arrival in Hue I was given basic Vietnamese lessons, whichproved to be very useful as levels of English in the area where wewere staying were very poor."

Philip was based …