A weekly newspaper reporter has quit his job to carry out charity work overseas.

Adam Raistrick, left the Mansfield Chad on Friday to spend four months volunteering in different countries of Asia with his wife Sundeep, who he married earlier this year.

He has been a reporter at the Chad for two and a half years and he was among the reporters who found out they had passed the NCE to gain senior status earlier this month.

Adam, left, will write about his experiences on his blog and also hopes to get some freelance work from his travels.

He said: “It’s getting a bit nerve racking now it’s only a few days until we leave but it should be a really amazing experience.

“It’s a shame that I’ve had to leave my job because I’ve really enjoyed the two and a half years I’ve spent here.

“But this is going to be a once in a lifetime thing and I wouldn’t want to think that by putting it off we missed the chance to do it, because of things like having a mortgage to pay or kids to look after.”

The couple have organised all their charity work themselves, rather than paying a travel company to arrange it, and will be working in areas which do not normally get that sort of help.

Adam and Sundeep will spend the first month of their trip at a school in a remote village in Tibet teaching children English, while staying with local people.

They will travel to Nepal for the second month where they will work in an orphanage which some of their friends fundraised for a few years ago.

Following that, the couple will head to Thailand for the rest of their travels, where they plan to find some groups or villages to volunteer for.

Adam added: “Hopefully this trip won’t be the end of it either, and we can come back over here and keep doing fundraising work, having made some more contacts once we’re done.

“It should be something we’ll always look back on and we’re both really looking forward to it.”

Comments

Tony Collins (23/08/2010 10:43:02)
Good for you Adam. I wish I’d had the courage and compassion to do that when I was your age. Best of luck