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When you come back to the UK you will join a diverse and active volunteer alumni. As part of this group you'll have opportunities to use your unique experiences to enrich your own community and pass on your learning. You will return as leaders within your community.

On your return from your project you remain connected to the community through your microfinance fund, which you help to set up in the community. Each year as a volunteer group, you will make decisions about where to reinvest this money on advice from our Expert Partners and The Great Generation staff as well as keeping up to date on the developments of each current loan. As well as this you become an ambassador for the community – a changemaker – by promoting The Supply Chain to your friends, family and colleagues: because you have been in the community and seen first-hand what is needed, you are best able to talk about the difference their donation can make!

For those volunteers who want to take it a step further, you can become a champion in your workplace for The Great Generation, by promoting the projects and the Supply Chain and coordinating with The Great Generation staff on upcoming projects. There is also the opportunity to help forge further links and relationships between the community you have volunteered in with connections and organisations at home. For more information on this please ask The Great Generation staff at your briefings. Other volunteers have also helped by representing our Expert Partners at funding events, by creating links to schools in the UK and also by making documentaries etc.

As a volunteer with The Great Generation you will be invited to our annual volunteer forum where you can hear from a range of interesting and inspiring speakers, get to mingle with other volunteers and hear about their experiences and also find out about projects in other communities. There is also the opportunity to take part in other conferences and events and we encourage all our volunteers to give a presentation to their colleagues, friends and family about their experience on the project and the issues facing the communities they have been in.