By Estelle Visagie for CNN
Estelle Visagie, 35, an IT consultant from South Africa was faced with redundancy because of the global economic crisis. She left her comfortable life in London, where she had lived for 10 years, to volunteer for a year in a remote corner of one of the poorest countries in the world. Here she shares her experience.
London, England (CNN) -- If you had asked me at the beginning of last year to pinpoint Bangladesh on a map, I would have struggled.
But in April I finished working for a year as a volunteer with VSO based in a rural, indigenous community in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
The area is close to the border with Myanmar and is mostly Buddhist, whereas 80 percent of Bangladeshis are Muslim.
