Name: Sarah Burns Placement: Seva Mandir Year: 2010 What is your favourite moment from interning with one of DiA’s placement partners? I couldn’t chose just one moment....
Name: Josh Reece-Moore Placement: Deep Griha Society Year: 2014 What is your favourite moment from interning with one of DiA’s placement partners? I have so...
Development scholarship, despite covering several disciplines, lacks diversity. Debates about what we mean by development, the way we measure it and the terms we...
With applications for DiA’s 2-month Indian Summer placements closing on Friday 2 May, 2012 volunteer Jenny Frydrych talked to Blog Editor Louisa Jones about...
TEN YEARS ON FROM VOLUNTEERING WITH DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION MANDARIN BENNETT IS STILL PASSIONATE ABOUT ENSURING THAT INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERING HAS A LASTING IMPACT AND...
At Development in Action, we believe that international volunteering should always be a reflective experience. That’s why we are collaborating with Impact International on...
Why is Development in Action so important? Members of our management committee give their thoughts Sarah Burns, Chair “After graduating I was looking for...
. DiA writer Rowan Emslie considers the downsides to reporting positive stories from Africa. A fair amount of hand-wringing has been going on lately...
Our India Volunteer Co-ordinator (IVC) Joseph Bird reflects on his work and travels around India keeping up with DiA’s placements and finding links with other grassroots...
Elephant blessings, monsoon thunderstorms and copious amounts of head wiggling – all in the space of one short week for DiA’s India Volunteer Co-ordinator...
In the second part of DiA’s exclusive coverage of International Women’s Day, Cardiff University Journalism students Sara Maranon and Sandhya Kannan investigate how the...