Out of Africa: oral histories of overseas volunteering in education, c. 1950–2010

This article examines the lived experiences of teachers who were either lay volunteers or Sister missionaries, working in education and health care. The research draws on oral histories, examining responses participants under a series thematic headings that unpack influence family life, schooling faith, while also exploring experience ‘in field’. attempts to compare women with Sisters (also sometimes known as nuns, religious), finds there some factors distinguished between these two cohorts involved voluntary work care African countries, period review.