Overseas Projects

DRIVE will be going to Samoa with University students for 11 days at the end of this year to help out at local schools with education programs and renovations in the village of Poutasi.

Philippines
February 2014
A recent project in the Philippines involved building a child care centre as well as several footpaths and sanitary facilities for a school. We also taught computer skills at the local high school and a health promotion course for young mothers.

Chile
July 2013
Santiago and Viña del Mar, Chile
N.Z. Volunteers worked with local volunteers to provide diversional therapy and psychosocial support to patients of the Policlínico El Salto. They also taught basic English and business skills to vocational training students from the Colegio Los Alerces.

Philippines
January 2012
Muntinlupa, Metro Manila
Volunteers provided training in Emergency and Basic First Aid to several hundred high school student as well as community social workers.

India
January 2011
Kishangarh and Shahpurjat, Delhi, India
Volunteers worked on the development of educational infrastructure and provided skills training to local beneficiaries so they could produce items for sale and increase their income.