Friday, May 04, 2007




Our First Volunteer Trainer!
Sincere thanks to Joanne Chatfield (an experienced Sports & Remedial Massage Therapist) who arrived in March to help train our students. She has worked really hard and done a fantastic job, teaching an intensive practical course designed to improve their postures and techniques so they can work more effectively. They have all made excellent progress, scoring high marks in both theory and practical tests. Each of them has also done at least 8 massages upon volunteer customers, who have all given good feedback and donated generously to the project in return. Treatments have been described as; "excellent" "very good" and "very relaxing" and the clinic itself is getting good ratings from clients. One lady could not believe it was "such a high standard and so very European". There is still a lot of room for developing the students’ understanding and communication skills but we are very pleased about the difference that it is already clear that short term volunteers can make. We now hope to finish training these students in Autumn, when we plan to recruit more students and volunteers. Thanks to everyone who made this possible, especially Jo, and those who donated towards her flight ticket.