Volunteer Stories
Jean-Pierre Acquadro, President of ADEI
I started to volunteer in 1992, but it was chance that led me on the path of humanitarian aid. Through the medical association AMD, I worked as a project manager in countries through Africa and Asia. It was through these initial volunteer experiences I learned to appreciate and enjoy the work on the ground while still respecting the values and culture of the countries where we worked...Read more
Denis Gruffaz, ADEI Volunteer
What led me to join ADEI?
The answer is both simple and complex...
A touch of random, a bit of luck, a pinch of wanting to leave the beaten track ... and a dream of the unknown!
But these few ingredients are not sufficient alone. I also add the will to share my skills in technical education, particularly in electrical engineering. After teaching in this field for twenty years, I thought I could bring my professional experience to serve the education goals of ADEI... Read more
Ravi Bhushan Singh, ADEI Volunteer
The education system in Tanzania is very different than that in many developed countries. The major difference is that in many countries, education is free and every youth has the right to attend though there are many children in the world who value education, in Tanzania, it is considered a privilege to access quality education... Read more
Joel Lequette, ADEI Volunteer
Since 2009, I have worked as a volunteer in developing projects at KIITEC in Arusha, Tanzania. I started out by providing training in Control Systems Maintenance to the locally hired teachers at KIITEC but have since increased my involvement in projects over there. I have seen the impact FTE’s Education Model on students, the local communities and industries and I believe that it is a powerful model worth expanding across the region...Read more
Alphonse Franco, ADEI Volunteer
For me, it was pretty much by chance that I started volunteering but as chance would have it, I became a volunteer with ADEI. My professional life had led me to work in an Automations Research Laboratory called ENSEIG (INP Grenoble), where I was a CNRS Instrumentations Engineer. Also, I was involved in activities that had to with Industrial Applications. At the same time I also taught in schools and also at IUT GEII...Read more