{"id":11926,"date":"2014-11-06T15:40:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=11926"},"modified":"2014-11-06T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:40:51","slug":"jim-ferguson-overseas-education-volunteer-with-vso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=11926","title":{"rendered":"Jim Ferguson &#8211; Overseas Education Volunteer with VSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mark Finnegan is joined by Jim Ferguson. Jim is a volunteer with Volunteer Services Overseas (VSO). He has just returned from Mozambique where he worked with the Campaign for Education in that country. Jim first went to Africa as a volunteer in 1970 and he talks about the huge changes that he has witnessed in the approach to education in developing countries. Jim talks passionately about his work and tells of the opportunities and satisfaction that can be got from volunteering in Africa and other areas. You can get more information about volunteering and the work VSO do\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: blue;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vso.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9241\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFerguson.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9241','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFerguson.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFerguson.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=11926-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFerguson.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"JimFerguson.mp3\">Download<\/a> (23.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Finnegan is joined by Jim Ferguson. Jim is a volunteer with Volunteer Services Overseas (VSO). He has just returned from Mozambique where he worked with the Campaign for Education in that country. Jim first went to Africa as a volunteer in 1970 and he talks about the huge changes that he has witnessed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9242\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFerguson.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9242','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFerguson.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFerguson.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=11926-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JimFerguson.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"JimFerguson.mp3\">Download<\/a> (23.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,44],"tags":[1975,2239],"class_list":["post-11926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-northside-today","tag-mark-finnegan","tag-northside-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}