Volunteer Service Abroad starts a week of nationwide promotional activity on Monday and celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in July. An author and former volunteer, NEVILLE PEAT (right), is writing a book on V.S.A. and here reflects on the type of people who volunteer, the risks and the rewards. Mr Peat was an aid information officer with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1977 and 1985 and is now a freelance writer with books on the Antarctic, the West Coast, cycling through New Zealand’s small towns, and Afghanistan.
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Press, 21 February 1987, Page 21
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87Volunteer Service Abroad starts a week of nationwide promotional activity on Monday and celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in July. An author and former volunteer, NEVILLE PEAT (right), is writing a book on V.S.A. and here reflects on the type of people who volunteer, the risks and the rewards. Mr Peat was an aid information officer with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1977 and 1985 and is now a freelance writer with books on the Antarctic, the West Coast, cycling through New Zealand’s small towns, and Afghanistan. Press, 21 February 1987, Page 21
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