Staff profile: Monique

Monique as a volunteer on our Garbage Pick-Up Project.

When Monique Ledger volunteered for the first time in St Lucia, she stayed only three weeks in August of 2012, but dove right into the experience.

“I went hard, I was so tired and satisfied at the end of every day and loved it,” Monique says of her time on the Orphan Day Care and HIV Education project.

This January, Monique has returned to St Lucia as our Volunteer Coordinator. From Port Campbell, Australia, she is also studying to receive a master’s degree in International and Community Development.

Using her experience as a former volunteer, Monique says she’s looking forward to empowering first-time volunteers to overcome their initial fears.

“I can fully understand how volunteers would be feeling going out on projects for the first time,” explains Monique, who admits to being intimidated at first but following another volunteer’s lead during her first few days as a volunteer.

Monique is excited to take the lead and help volunteers have the time of their lives, and says a great bonus of being Volunteer Coordinator is meeting the array of people from all walks of life that come to volunteer on St Lucia’s three projects.

“I’m excited to meet people from everywhere who are going to come in and love everything,” says Monique, “To listen to their stories and at the end of the day hear how they enjoyed it, too.”