Work Experience, by Molly

First Day
My name is Molly, i am in year 10 at a local school, and i have come to work at Cecily's for a week for my work experience. My first day of work experience was very pleasant and interseting. I have learned alot about the history, for example, about Cecily herself. I have learned about her Gap year adventure to Zambia, and how it very unfortunatly and suddenly ended when she died in a car incident and how her parents realised that they have lost their child, but there are alot of children in Zambia losing their parents, so they wanted to do something about it. I have also learned about the different areas of the organisationand what they do and about the friends of Cecily's fund in America and Switzerland. This is my first time in a work place, so it has been very interesting to see what it is like, and how everything happens. I am greatly looking forward to the rest of the week, and the different jobs i will do. Today i have sorted out files and photos, to help make them easier to find, i have read through interviews from trips to Zambia, and put them into an interview form, put D.V.Ds into cases and done some photocopying. I have a feeling that i will learn alot throughout the week, about Cecily's Fund and what a week at work is really like.


Children who are helped by Cecily's Fund...
For the last 3 days i have done three/four time-consuming jobs. On tuesday i made an album of pictures, captions and bits of writing about the 10th anniversary of Cecily's Fund. This was fun and very interesting, as i saw alot of pictures of the children and the staff. I also learned a few things by doing this too, for example, about the beautiful flame tree that was planted in Cecily's memory. It also enabled me to see the children that Cecily's Fund helps, which gave me a greater sense of how Cecily's Fund helps them, and how its effecting them. Late on tuesday afternoon and on wednesday morning, i read through some more case studies and matched pictures up to them. This was very interesting, as i learned about alot of children who are helped by Cecily's Fund, their experiences and home-life. One story that i particulary found interesting was a little girl in grade four. She lives with her grandmother who had been suffering with malaria. From what Cecily's Fund can guess, she is a double orphan, and shares a 2 bedroom house with 3 other people. On wednesday after-noon and thursday morning, i worked on the data-base. I was reading through a list of everybody that attended this years Opera event, and making sure that everybody was in the data-base (and if not, put them in) and making sure that the entries all had that they had attended. This was quite time-consuming, but not dull. It showed me the large number of supporters Cecily's Fund has, and that they come from all over the place.


Last Day of Work Experience
Today was my last day of work experience. Through the day i have made two more display boards for various gatherings and fundraising events. I have greatly enjoyed my week here, and can't believe that its over. Whilst being here i have learned alot about the history and the jobs involved. I have enjoyed the experience of being in the workplace, loved meeting and working with the people here (who are lovely) and am sad that it's over. I'm one of those people who has no idea what i want to do when i grow up, and even-though working at Cecily's Fund has not particularly changed that, it has given me a definate option for a career. I think that Cecily's Fund is an amazing charity, which is well worth supporting in everyway possible.