Adventures Of A Riot Grrrl

There are so many amazing services helping people in and around Birmingham. Part of showing Active Citizens around our community is helping them learn about how we work to help people in the community. If you followed my Sri Lanka adventures you would have read about my visit to a school and also a…

As you know dear reader I recently went on a trip to Sri Lanka with the British council active citizens programme. I wrote a few posts about my journey. As my company is one of the few Active Citizens training providers we get the pleasure of also hosting some international visitors.  I am Birmingh…

It was time to say goodbye but before we did you know what that means......PARRRRTTTTTY! I would like to say I dressed up but I didn't I had a lovely dress to wear but when I put it on I felt all icky and just sulky so I changed into something more comfy. We all lumbered onto a coach to venture…

My first impressions of Colombo were not good. We left sandy beaches of Galle and Matara to a dirty packed city. The number of beggars increased dramatically even knocking on car windows. I could see lots of shops and everyone seemed too busy all the time compared to the laid back Sri Lanka I had s…

It was time to leave Matara but like I said we had the most awesome facilitator and he wanted to take us to see as much as Sri Lanka as we would before we had to go back to meet the others. We drove to taake a look at Galle where one of the other groups had been staying. Galle is beautiful of all t…

Just when I thought the sunset I told you about in my other post was a beautiful as they could get Sri Lanka decided to blow me away again. The group had decided we wanted to go to the beach to practise forum theatre to be able to present back to the rest of the groups when we returned from communi…

We split off into our community visits yesterday and we spend hours driving down to the coast of Sri Lanka to get to Matara. It was a really long drive but on the positive side this means we got to see a lot more of Sri Lanka and learn more about a new place when some of the teams were staying loca…

The first part of our community visit today was to go into a local school and help teach about child rights and how to safeguard themselves. Having come from a children and young people background safeguarding is something I am passionate about. All children and young people deserve to live and gro…

When I heard we would be visiting an elephant sanctuary I actually squealed with excitement. I love animals and the thought of being able to see elephants roam free rather than just in a zoo or safari park was an exciting thought. On the journey there I wasn't alone we were first in the van an…

We started the day with some beautiful meditation closing our eyes and being lead to listen to nature and then left to go explore the surroundings for a little bit without talking. I really enjoyed listening to the birds and looking out onto the huge lake. When we returned one girl gave a beautiful…

Tired eyed and sleepy we met some fellow Active Citizens at the airport Amy,Chloe and Ed all from the UK who had been on the same flight as us! Everyone was buzzing with excitement and piled into the van which took us on a journey to the first destination. First stop was to be Thulhiriya to the MIM…

It almost doesn't feel real! I am so excited today I fly out to Sri Lanka as part of British Council Active Citizen program. I will be representing YTV and Ulfah arts in helping social action projects around the world really make a difference. British council brings Active Citizens together fro…