2011 Lattitude Video Competition winners
Congratulations Steven Lyon for winning first place in our video competition for this beautiful overview of his time volunteering in Fiji:
Country: Fiji Role: Community Worker
2011 Lattitude Photo Competition winners
Congratulations Zoe Millikan for winning first place in our photo competition this year with these incredible shots:
2011 Lattitude Written Competition winners
We had many incredible entries this year but it ultimately came down to these three worthy contenders.
First place goes to Ruqiyah Patel for her story ‘Mother Rapper.’
An old lady with no teeth is dancing in the room behind us. Charlotte and I know who she is, to a degree – she’s visited the monastery once or twice before. Pema Wangda, the monk most comfortable with girls, puts his head out the door and informs us that ‘Mother Rapper’ is dancing. When we sneak a look, all the monks go silent and stare at us. We sit quietly in the main room and listen.
It will take a long time to help the monks get over their shyness with us, their first girl volunteers, even though they’ve had Lattitude teachers for the past four years. Playing cricket, teaching them Solitaire over dinner, running in circles with the kids, painting the new dormitories, getting to the stage when we’d gather around over a Spot the Animals book after dinner…step one happens tonight.
Someone is playing a pop song we know on their phone – probably Chogyel, who loves English music – and we sing along to it, a habit whenever a monk started to play anything we recognise. Us singing to their music always makes the monks smile.
2010 Lattitude Video Competition winner
Kevin Hawkins is the deserving winner of the 2010 Lattitude Video Competition. This is his winning entry from his time volunteering as a teacher in Africa in 2009.
Learning, laughing and dancing – chaos of an Indian classroom
Emma Goodwin is the winner of the 2009 Lattitude Video Competition. Her video shows a wonderful shapshot of her placement in India, enjoy!