Helen Ogbu

And also volunteered with Galway Volunteer Centre, where I ended up getting my job.

I still work with Galway Volunteer Centre.

17 years now.

And so volunteering has been my life.

I volunteered with the Galway Rape Crisis Centre, the Galway City Women's Shed, which I actually became the first co-chair of the Women's Shed.

And yeah, I've done a lot of volunteering.

Volunteering has been my life.

And it's something that I actually currently do now.

supporting community groups and charities, training them on best practice along volunteer management.

Well, from just way back in Nigeria, growing up, I like my home, my mom, my parents.

Actually, I didn't know.

I didn't say that's fostering then.

But now when I came to Ireland, I just thought that was what it was.

We would have our homes.

My parents would like nurture young people.

whenever I would travel to a village or maybe families that maybe are struggling, they would like speak to my parents.

And my parents, like if we had a spare space or beds in the house, they would bring these children home and my parents would nurture them.

So I ended up having more siblings than my biological siblings.

And we all grew up together.

So that was my intro into fostering.