This is a personal report of a volunteer engineer who worked as a civil engineering lecturer in Ethiopia for two years on a placement: with Voluntary Service Over-seas. In addition to his main teaching rale, most of which was blackboard-based, he was able to make a major contribution to improving the way the technology faculty operated. He also became involved in road safety and HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns. In return he and his wife gained a significantly broader view of the world and its problems, confirming their belief that volunteering is a genuinely two-way process.
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