THERE WILL BE AN EVENT NEXT JANUARY ______.A. BECAUSE THE CLUB HAS...

5. There will be an event next January ______.A. because the Club has been offered 'the Forest Hotel’B. to celebrate the Club's twentieth birthdayC. to raise money for a student from AfricaD. which will take the form of a discussion evening

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A YEAR WITH OVERSEAS VOLUNTEERSI was with Overseas Volunteers (OV) for a year after leaving university, and I was sent to an isolatedvillage in Chad, about 500 km from the capital N'Djamena. Coming from' a rich country, I got quite a shockas conditions were much harder than I had expected. But after a few days I soon got used to living there.The people were always very friendly and helpful, and soon I began to appreciate how beautiful thecountryside was. One of my jobs was to supply the village with water. The well was a long walk away. And the womenused to spend a long time every day carrying heavy pots backwards and forwards. So I contactedorganization and arranged to have some pipes delivered. We built a simple pipeline and a pump, and itworked first time. It wasn't perfect - there were a few leaks, but it made a great difference to the villagers,who had never had running water before. And not only did we have running water, but in the evenings itwas hot, because the pipe had been lying in the sun all day. All in all, I think .my time with OV was a goodexperience. Although it was not well-paid, it was well worth doing, and I would recommend it to anyonewho was considering working for a charity.