About GoldStar 
| Name | Age |
Project |
|---|---|---|
 Angela Kolongo |
21 |
WORLDwrite |
Angela wanted to help her fellow Africans. So she came to England and volunteered.
If you want to put the world to rights, join WORLDwrite. That’s certainly the message that Angela Kolongo got when she attended her first evening at the Hackney based global equality charity. Arriving in England from Nairobi (via schooling and community service work in Moscow), Angela wanted to combine volunteering with her University studies. Coming from a developing country, Angela knew how life can be there and wanted to make a difference. Invited to an introduction evening, Angela was impressed by the creativity of the young volunteers from ethnic minorities and disadvantaged groups, particularly films they had made to highlight the African plight. Initially helping out with administration, promotion and publicity, Angela has been able to join a film-making project at the Centre. Totally planned and conceived by the volunteers, the film project is based on the Kipling poem The White Man’s Burden and how the notion of helping the third world has failed to move with the times. As well as helping to get the right messages across to the right people, the project has given Angela training in film and editing that will help her future career. Keen to encourage other new young recruits from diverse backgrounds, she is also helping to review the barriers to volunteering and how they can be overcome. Helping others has also helped Angela in other ways, as she explains:
“At WORLDwrite, volunteers are given the freedom to develop their own ideas and projects, not just given tasks to do. So you feel that you are helping to change the world through your own achievements. It’s also wonderful to work with others who are as passionate about the same things as I am.”
Having already come a long way to volunteer, it looks like Angela has the intention of going a lot further
Manager's comment:
“Why do we attract people like Angela? I think its because we have a clear goal of global equality and we give all our volunteers the chance to develop their own solutions to it. It’s easy to take part, which is a big plus for our many new recruits from the developing world. There’s also lots of opportunities to learn new skills, be creative and put good thinking into practice. Like everyone else, Angela has an equal voice here and gets herself heard.”
