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Nursery nurse Gemma Rowe describes a rewarding and responsible week's work as a volunteer in a children's home in Albania Monday

Monday

Up at 7am for a shower and breakfast, then walk our oldest child, Xhoni, to school. We stop to look at the cow in the truck behind the butcher's shop.

It moos at him loudly, making him jump. Laughing, we head to school.

I've been a nursery nurse for six years and have had jobs varying from a nanny to a playworker. But after I graduated with an Early Childhood Studies degree earlier this year I decided to work as a volunteer in a children's home here in Albania after seeing an ad in Nursery World. The home is run by the Albanian government, but the charity Hope and Homes for Children assists with the running costs and training staff.

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